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On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi Dirk;
>
> AFAICT, gdb is unmaintained and will be replaced by LLDB.
>
> About realloc, those are rather difficult to catch. Perhaps
> the clang static analyzer can give you some hints on
> what to look at:
>
> http://scan.freebsd.org/
>
> And FWIW, we also have reallocf().
>
> Regards,
>
> Pedro.
>

Both of these errors sound like things that Coverity ought to be able
to detect.  Have you looked in the Coverity reports yet?