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Electric Fence - Memory debugger

Electric Fence (efence) stops your program on the exact instruction that overruns (or underruns) a malloc() memory buffer. GDB will then display the source-code line that causes the bug. It works by using the virtual-memory hardware to create a red-zone at the border of each buffer - touch that, and your program stops. Catch all of those formerly impossible-to-catch overrun bugs that have been bothering you for years.

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Web pagehttp://perens.com/FreeSoftware/
Source tarball ftp://ftp.perens.com/pub/ElectricFence/ElectricFence-2.4.10.tar.gz
Version 2.4.10 (stable) released on 2004-07-20
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

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Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Use requirementsgdb
Related programsValgrind, MemCheck Deluxe, Memwatch

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License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-01-30
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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