Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:00:22 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com> To: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free (was: Memory leak in getservbyXXX?) Message-ID: <199709251900.AA223834022@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:18:16 PDT." <199709232218.PAA18505@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org>
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> So was "leak", which was a DBM style wrapper to malloc/free. It would
> keep track of what you'd free'd and malloc'd and warn you when you
> were screwing up. Leak was public domain, but I have no idea where to
> get it. I have a hacked copy if anyone wants want.
"Leak" appeared in comp.sources.unix, volume 27 (circa 1994):
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Subject: Volume 27 (Ends March 29, 1994)
leak (1 part, 2 patches) quick and dirty code to find memory leaks,
efence (1 part, 1 patch) Electric Fence, a debugging malloc() library,
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Note that "efence" also appeared there.
-- Darryl Okahata
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