On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:46:17PM -0500, Jean-Philippe Martin wrote: > Hi all, > > I vaguely remember that there exists some environment variable that, if > set, will cause gcc (or the linker?) to add range checks to detect buffer > overflows and the like. I tried googling for it, but didn't come up with > anything. hmm, i don't think it's a native gcc feature. perhaps you're looking for something like electricfence (see efence(3) man page)?
if you use your own malloc instead of glibcs, several support range checking given proper initialization, but i've never gone that route so i can't provide more info. googling for malloc replacement will probably do the trick tho. > I'm sorry this is so vague. Hopefully, someone in the list has used that > feature before and can see what I'm talking about? personally, i've only ever used rational's purify. it's absolutely the bomb and absolutely ridiculously expensive. fortunately there's a free trial download for windows at least and probably *nix as well. luck++; _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
