Electric Fence

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Electric Fence

http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/
Memory debugger

This is a candidate for deletion: Links broken. No links to page. No response from maintainer at given email. Poppy-one (talk) 14:11, 1 August 2018 (EDT)

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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License

GPLv2

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Janet Casey

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30 January 2003




Leaders and contributors

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Bruce Perens Maintainer


Resources and communication

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Bug Tracking,Developer,SupportE-mailmailto:bruce@perens.com


Software prerequisites

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