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Date:      Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:39:49 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Greg Lewis <glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        "Ronald 'Ko' Klop" <ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: purify available?
Message-ID:  <19990810093948.B85468@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <199908101411.XAA70240@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au>; from "Greg Lewis" on Tue Aug 10 23:41:16 GMT 1999
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908100928010.256-100000@dlanor.evertsen.nl> <199908101411.XAA70240@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au>

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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


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