Are you using the Emulator with debug ROMs? Use the latest POSE (3.5) and the OS 4.1 debug ROMs with all the debug checks turned on and run Gremlins. POSE does a pretty thorough job of looking for memory accesses in forbidden places, and the debug ROMs do a good job of checking your use of the Palm OS APIs through assertions.
In CodeWarrior, the Palm menu has a Debug Console menu (or something similar depending on your platform) where you can scramble the heap, compact it, fill up most free memory, etc. This can also be done in code. Take a look at the Development Tools Guide chapter on the Console (the guide is in the 5.0 SDK docs). Finally, take a look at the Expert Case Studies online course, which is free until the end of the year. Click on the Developers link at www.palmsource.com and follow the Training links to the course enrollment form. Good luck, JB @ PalmSource on 10/8/02 6:11 AM, kcorey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I've recently found a bug that didn't surface during initial testing, > because it only appears when my program loads above a certain spot in > memory. > > This means that I need to find (or write) a program that can force my > program to load at a higher place in memory and to test for low-memory > situations. I'm thinking a DA, a hack, or some such terminate and stay > resident program. > > On unix or PC's I've seen these referred to as 'Piggy programs'. > > Does anyone know of such a thing for the Palm? > > Also, anyone know of a program to purposely scramble the stack, slowly > eat up available memory over time, etc? > > -Ken > > > > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
