Re: GNOME Summary, Oct26-Nov9

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

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On 10 Nov 1999, Miroslav Silovic wrote:
> 
> Commercial tools that cost $1000 per seat do this and a lot more: they
> detect -all- memory access problems (i.e. read from uninitialised,
> write uninitialised data, write freed memory, free freed memory, index
> overflow, illegal stack access, delete instead of delete[] in C++)
> This requires either tempering with compiled code (to check all
> accesses), as done by Purify and Sun SPARC Workshop, or tricks with

Purify does a lot more, but there are much crappier tools on the market
that are still really expensive. I won't name names. :-)

Havoc