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Re: [RFC] Simple checking allocator


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:05:45AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> OndÅej BÃlka <neleai@seznam.cz> writes:
> >
> > Comments?
> 
> Better to just rely on valgrind or AddressSanitizer? Those 
> will be always better for this.
> 
Could if you accept a slowdown. 

This one is more ligthweight approach with small slowdown on single thread applications.

One of applications is that we could do bound checking of 
strcat/strcpy also for heap allocated memory.


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