Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:58:26AM -0400 I heard the voice of > Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > FYI, INVARIANTS adds checks but does not (is not supposed to) divert > > code paths. > > It does at least in UMA; it does a lot of bzero()/NULL'ing out of > memory, which might hide later uninitialized-use bugs that could bite > you without it
Shouldn't it write something like 0xdeadc0de or 0x0d0d0d0d to memory -- like user-land memory debugging tools do -- to catch read-before-write bugs? Ulrich Spoerlein -- PGP Key ID: 20FEE9DD Encrypted mail welcome! Fingerprint: AEC9 AF5E 01AC 4EE1 8F70 6CBD E76E 2227 20FE E9DD Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Don't know. Don't care.
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