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From: Darius.Clynes@cec.eu.int
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Subject: RE: Can I expect electric fence to work?
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:16:45 +0200
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yes I have compiled with cygwin against the efence libs for 
memory detection/allocation array bounds, free, etc, problems

it eats tons of memory and produces humungous code
 and goes incredibly slow but you may be able to detect
 a place where allocated memory goes nuts.

 but, it only really works well for memory  explicitly,
  allocated with malloc, so,
 stack corruption, and problems local variables, are not
 easily detected.

 hope you have some molasses ready,
 gdb doesnt especially love efence linked
 exe but it can be done 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sengan [mailto:senganb@ia.nsc.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:00 AM
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Can I expect electric fence to work?
>
>
>I'm actually interested in the functions behind
>efence (mprotect, mmap, etc) to cause a signal
>on memory violations as in efence, but in my own
>program. Can I expect cygwin to be able to do this
>under Windows?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sengan
>
>
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