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Re: [RFC] Simple checking allocator
- From: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
- To: Petr Machata <pmachata at redhat dot com>
- Cc: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:51:36 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Simple checking allocator
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:28:09AM +0100, Petr Machata wrote:
> OndÅej BÃlka <neleai@seznam.cz> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Doesn't ElectrictFence do pretty much the same thing without slowdow
valgrind/AS do detect much more errors than electric fence,
they are much more powerful.
-Andi