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diff --git a/devel/electric-fence/DESCR b/devel/electric-fence/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..dccc91bf84b --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/electric-fence/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +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. |