library providing malloc debugging via VM protection
Description
Electric Fence is a different kind of malloc() debugger. It uses the virtual
memory hardware of your system to detect when software overruns the boundaries
of a malloc() buffer. It will also detect any accesses of memory that has
been released by free(). Because it uses the VM hardware for detection,
Electric Fence stops your program on the first instruction that causes
a bounds violation. It's then trivial to use a debugger to display the
offending statement.
Package information
- Ports path
- devel/ElectricFence
- Package architecture
- amd64
- Maintainer
- The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
- Categories
- devel
- Available flavors
- None listed
Ports list build and test dependencies as well as runtime dependencies. pkg_add selects those needed for installation.
Direct dependencies
None listed.