From: jstacey AT plato DOT wadham DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (J-P)
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Subject: Re: Debugger that can detect buffer overruns?
Date: 17 Nov 2000 20:06:30 -0000
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In article <8v3s96$ssh$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com>,  <dcasale AT my-deja DOT com> wrote:
>I don't know.  Maybe I'm just having trouble understanding the GDB
>documentation.  Maybe it _does_ check for buffer overruns and I don't
>know how to use that feature.

Surely if you write past the end of allocated memory you get undefined
behaviour? If you wanted to tell the debugger how much you'd alloc'ed to
each pointer - surely you might as well just tell your compiled C code
that with global variables?

(I'm not writing from a position of any kind of authority or even
comprehension, btw.)

J-P