From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 13 21:39:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA20176 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 21:39:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smoke.marlboro.vt.us (smoke.marlboro.vt.us [198.206.215.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20152 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 21:39:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us) Received: (from cgull@localhost) by smoke.marlboro.vt.us (8.8.7/8.8.7/cgull) id AAA02307; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 00:39:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 00:39:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801140539.AAA02307@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: cgull+usenet-884755990@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (john hood) To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Purify/Insure++ In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.31 under Emacs 19.34.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk The Hermit Hacker writes: > Anyone know of something similar to the above that works under FreeBSD? > Or, hell, even under the Linux emulation? :( Checker gcc. It builds easily under FreeBSD, and it's been busy finding trn bugs for me for the last month. :) >From what I understand of Purify, Checker is about as capable at detecting problems, though it uses a rather different method. Check the Linux archives. --jh -- Mr. Belliveau said, "the difference was the wise, John Hood, cgull intelligent look on the face of the cow." He was @ *so* right. --Ofer Inbar smoke.marlboro.vt.us