Re: Frequency of 3.8 Malloc Options Check

2005-11-30 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 02:17, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: On Tuesday 29 November 2005 19:19, Todd C. Miller wrote: Note that you can also set the malloc options from within a program you are developing. I've found this to be quite useful for

Frequency of 3.8 Malloc Options Check

2005-11-29 Thread Dave Feustel
I now have 3.8 installed. Very Nice, especially Firefox. CDROM Artwork is also nicely done. My question is re Malloc. When and how often does malloc check the flags in MALLOC_OPTIONS. Once at system init, on every malloc call, or other? Can I set the options, run a program, and see if the new

Re: Frequency of 3.8 Malloc Options Check

2005-11-29 Thread Ted Unangst
On 11/29/05, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now have 3.8 installed. Very Nice, especially Firefox. CDROM Artwork is also nicely done. My question is re Malloc. When and how often does malloc check the flags in MALLOC_OPTIONS. Once at system init, on every malloc call, or other? Can I

Re: Frequency of 3.8 Malloc Options Check

2005-11-29 Thread Todd C. Miller
Note that you can also set the malloc options from within a program you are developing. I've found this to be quite useful for adding a belt and suspenders mode during developement (the use after free checks in particular). - todd

Re: Frequency of 3.8 Malloc Options Check

2005-11-29 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 19:19, Todd C. Miller wrote: Note that you can also set the malloc options from within a program you are developing. I've found this to be quite useful for adding a belt and suspenders mode during developement (the use after free checks in particular). - todd

Re: Frequency of 3.8 Malloc Options Check

2005-11-29 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: On Tuesday 29 November 2005 19:19, Todd C. Miller wrote: Note that you can also set the malloc options from within a program you are developing. I've found this to be quite useful for adding a belt and suspenders mode during developement (the use