From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: YAMD malloc debugger v0.32 released
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 19:29:34 -0700
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
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I've uploaded version 0.32 of YAMD, Yet Another Malloc Debugger.

A few compilation problems are fixed.  There aren't really any major
changes in this version.

You can get it from:

http://www3.hmc.edu/~neldredge/yamd/

Note that this is a different site than for previous releases.


About YAMD:
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YAMD is a package for finding bugs related to dynamic memory allocation
(pointer overruns, memory leaks, etc).  Among its special features:

* Paging mechanisms are used to trap illegal memory accesses.  This
means that reads as well as writes can be caught, and are caught
immediately, rather than at some later time.

* All operations are logged with a traceback to aid in finding why some
allocation or other went awry.

* No changes to your source are required to use YAMD.

* Everything else you'd expect from a malloc debugger; checking of
"obvious" errors like multiple freeing, etc.

YAMD also works under Linux, and in fact supports some additional
features there.

Some restrictions do apply:

- Several DPMI 1.0 features are essential to the way YAMD works;
therefore, **it will only work under plain DOS with CWSDPMI as the DPMI
server**.

- A fairly large amount of swap space is recommended.
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Nate Eldredge
neldredge AT hmc DOT edu