From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 7:41:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB720153FF for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 07:41:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA85862; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:39:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:39:49 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Greg Lewis Cc: "Ronald 'Ko' Klop" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: purify available? Message-ID: <19990810093948.B85468@dan.emsphone.com> References: <199908101411.XAA70240@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <199908101411.XAA70240@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au>; from "Greg Lewis" on Tue Aug 10 23:41:16 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Aug 10), Greg Lewis said: > > Is there a tool like purify available (for free :-) for FreeBSD? > > Purify is a tool which traces all pointers in a program to find > > memory leaks and other malfunctioning pointers. > > Check out ElectricFence in /usr/ports/devel. Two more good tools are bounds-checking gcc ( patches to egcs-1.1.2 at http://web.inter.NL.net/hcc/Haj.Ten.Brugge/ ) and dmalloc ( http://www.dmalloc.com ). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message