Hiltjo Posthuma <hil...@codemadness.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 08:27:37PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I made a small tutorial with some usage notes for the new malloc leak > > detection which is available in OpenBSD 7.4: > > > > https://www.drijf.net/malloc/ > > > > While I have you attention, I'd like to mention that I can use a > > reasonably modern laptop as well, more detais in the last entry of > > > > https://www.openbsd.org/want.html > > > > -Otto > > > > Awesome, thanks for sharing. > > It is so nice to have a strict malloc when developing software. > > I also enjoyed your recent EuroBSDCon talk about the design decision of > malloc(3).
Under pressure, Otto followed the openbsd design philosphy of: make a checking technology cheap, then enable it by default. And then iterate, finding ways to make another aspect cheap, and enable it by default. Iterate again, revising what it does in relationship to other mechanims, and make it cheap... and better again... by default...
