Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 21:21:11 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Weirdness in current Message-ID: <4243.845580071@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Oct 1996 12:45:44 MDT." <199610171845.MAA19565@rocky.mt.sri.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" :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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