Electric Fence

{{Entry |Name=Electric Fence |Short description=Memory debugger |Full description=[[Category:Candidates for deletion]+] This is a candidate for deletion: Links broken. No links to page. No response from maintainer at given email. Poppy-one (talk) 14:09, 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. |Homepage URL=http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/ |Is High Priority Project=No |Computer languages=C |Decommissioned or Obsolete=Yes |Decommissioned details=Links broken. No links to page. No response from maintainer at given email. |Related projects=Valgrind,MemCheck_Deluxe,Memwatch,halloc,Memtest86 |Keywords=memory,overrun,debugger,gdb,malloc(),virtual-memory |Version identifier=2.4.15 |Version date=2005-07-24 |Version status=stable |Version download=http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/ElectricFence/electric-fence_2.1.13-0.1.tar.gz |Version comment=2.4.15 stable released 2005-07-24 |Last review by=Craig Hutchinson |Last review date=2018/08/02 |Submitted by=Database conversion |Submitted date=2011-04-01 |User level=none |Accepts cryptocurrency donations=No |Test entry=No |Is GNU=No |License verified date=2003-01-30 }}