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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 1996 12:45:44 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weirdness in current 
Message-ID:  <199610171845.MAA19565@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <4105.845577552@critter.tfs.com>
References:  <199610171805.MAA19142@rocky.mt.sri.com> <4105.845577552@critter.tfs.com>

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> >Stack corruption bugs are a *bugger* to find.
> 
> I don't know of any reliable & simple way to catch that kind of bug.

Port your software to SunOS/Slolaris and run Purify on it. :)

> I once made a gross hack on a Pyramid, such that checksum of the stack
> was made at every function call and record written to file at the
> return recording match/nomatch.

This is basically what Purify does..


Nate



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