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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <199610171845.MAA19565@rocky.mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes:
>> >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..

I said "simple" what Purify does can hardly be called "simple" :-)

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