Developing tools

[jcallen at narsil.com (Jerry Callen)]

"James R. Van Zandt" wrote:

> I recommend electric fence.

I haven't been able to use electric fence on programs that allocate many
small objects (like very large hash tables); it just eats so much memory
that I run out of swap space, even after adding a half gig swap area.

If you can afford it, and it's supported on your system, Purify is very
nice. Besides detecting invalid memory references, it can also detect
memory leaks, suppress known "OK" reference problems (like things in
system libraries that you can't do anything about...), and other cool
stuff. But it *is* expensive.

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