From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:50:43 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Clueless programmers
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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."