From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Clueless programmers
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:50:43 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1802151037420.5573@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKr6gn2ssgbSwNDU1kAHCrHzvgLja3dskTcUjsbZYxO=E8GjNg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, George Michaelson wrote:
> I (and I am self-confessed as the worlds least competent programmer)
> frequently found the delay between where corruption in malloc is applied
> and where its detected sufficiently confusing that I would have been
> tempted to follow this well trodden "remove the free()" path.
MALLOC_CONF and Electric Fence are your friends; I never released any of
my dynamic code without first running it past those (and some of my linked
lists were hideous).
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-14 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-14 14:28 Ron Natalie
2018-02-14 22:07 ` George Michaelson
2018-02-14 23:50 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-02-15 2:42 ` George Michaelson
2018-02-15 11:43 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-02-16 15:54 Rudi Blom
2018-02-16 16:32 ` Larry McVoy
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