Hello people, I wish to query the usefullness (if thats not a made up word) of electricfence on OpenBSD. I have a program which works great when not linked against -lefence, but gives a bus error otherwise (not as a result of my code, but in libpq according to a stack trace :O ).
A google search later, and I find this page (http://kerneltrap.org/node/5584) in which theo explains that the new malloc() does exactly what electric fence does by default. So my question are: a) Why do we have a port of electric fence? b) If my program runs fine on OpenBSD without -lefence can I assume that no buffers have been over-run? c) (off-topic) How are people checking for memory leaks these days on OpenBSD? I took a quick look at gc-boehm, but havent got it working as of yet. How well does it work for you and what alternatives exist? It seems most are using valgrind, but thats very linuxcentric if i understand correctly. Thanks for you time guys Best Regards Edd
