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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Debugging?
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Brandon Erhart wrote:
> 
> For Linux, I've seen valgrind (probably one of the best) as well as 
> several others. In the commercial arena, Rational's PURIFY and 
> Parasoft's INSURE++ work on every OS *but* BSD. Any particular reason 
> for this?
> 
> Are there any debuggers out there for BSD that will detect the 
> heap/stack corruption!?

Valgrind is available for FreeBSD.

http://eirikn.kerneled.com/valgrind/

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Lev Walkin
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