"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. memtest86 tests viability of the RAM in your system. It's purpose > is to try and detect hardware problems with your systems memory. > > What Johan wants is a package to do things like bounds checking of > dynamically allocated arrays and uninitialized memory read/write > checking, on code that he develops himself, or compiles himself > anyway. > > I don't think any of the free ones come close to the functionality of > purify, but it's been a couple of years since I checked into it so the > situation may have changed. Johan, try one of these: > > % apt-cache search malloc|grep -i debug > ccmalloc - A memory profiler/debugger > debauch - A malloc debugger > electric-fence - A malloc(3) debugger > fda - C malloc debug library > gccchecker - Memory access debugger for C language development > njamd - Not Just Another Malloc Debugger > dmalloc - Debuging memory allocation library > > from a system running Debian "testing". > > Also, if a commercial solution isn't totally out of the question you > can look into Insure++ (http://www.parasoft.com). I've run it on my > Debian "testing" system with moderate success.
Please do "Johan = Leif" in the above. I messed up the attributions. Sorry about that. Gary
