From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 25 12:02:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA05509 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:02:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05488; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:01:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srmail.sr.hp.com (srmail.sr.hp.com [15.4.45.14]) by palrel3.hp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id MAA19530; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:00:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by srmail.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA022834023; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:00:23 -0700 Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by mina.sr.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA223834022; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:00:22 -0700 Message-Id: <199709251900.AA223834022@mina.sr.hp.com> To: Dave Hayes Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free (was: Memory leak in getservbyXXX?) Reply-To: darrylo@sr.hp.com In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:18:16 PDT." <199709232218.PAA18505@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:00:22 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > So was "leak", which was a DBM style wrapper to malloc/free. It would > keep track of what you'd free'd and malloc'd and warn you when you > were screwing up. Leak was public domain, but I have no idea where to > get it. I have a hacked copy if anyone wants want. "Leak" appeared in comp.sources.unix, volume 27 (circa 1994): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Volume 27 (Ends March 29, 1994) leak (1 part, 2 patches) quick and dirty code to find memory leaks, efence (1 part, 1 patch) Electric Fence, a debugging malloc() library, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note that "efence" also appeared there. -- Darryl Okahata Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.