From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 7 12:18:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06400 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:18:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06395 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:18:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA08930; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:18:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Message-ID: <19981107121802.F13487@nuxi.com> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:18:02 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Joel Ray Holveck Cc: Hackers Mailing List Subject: Re: Memory leak location tool? Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19981030141624.A1244@thought.org> <86u30lms4a.fsf@detlev.UUCP> <19981105023418.A5837@nuxi.com> <86ww57qoqh.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <86ww57qoqh.fsf@detlev.UUCP>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 01:36:38PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Closely related is also ElectricFence. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but EF doesn't detect leaks, does it? Nope. But like I said closely. :-) It helps with the reverse problem, more free()'s than malloc()'s or accessing memory that has been free()ed. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message