Electric Fence
Electric Fence
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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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Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
| Bruce Perens | Maintainer |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Bug Tracking,Developer,Support | mailto:bruce@perens.com |
Software prerequisites
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Required to use | gdb |
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