On 2002.11.06, Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I would really like, is a replacement malloc library which I can > link in to protect me from the bad vendor code, by doing things like > padding malloc buffers with extra space. [...] > > I've found lots of potentially useful malloc replacements (see below), > however, it's not at all clear which would meet my needs. So before I > go off and start fooling with these, does anyone have any experience > with this sort of thing? Advice or recomendations?
Since I didn't see it on your list, I'll add one more that I think will do what you want: Electric Fence (efence) http://cs.ecs.baylor.edu/~donahoo/tools/efence/ -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)