Re: How to find the memory smasher (Was: How to break on a variable change in XCode debugging)
Re: How to find the memory smasher (Was: How to break on a variable change in XCode debugging)
- Subject: Re: How to find the memory smasher (Was: How to break on a variable change in XCode debugging)
- From: Lance Saleme <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:12:26 -0800
You might want to look into Electric Fence for catching the offending
code on the exact instruction it smashes a buffer.
I wish I could add more detail to the suggestion, but the engineer on
our project that tracked down this tool and incorporated it into our
product development isn't around at the moment to fill in the finer
points.
The place to start is at the author's free distribution site (see
below):
http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/ElectricFence/
I can only offer the testimonial that this tool caught some rather
elusive and extremely damaging memory problems in our 1.5 million line
code base that other tools missed.
Good luck,
Lance
On Dec 20, 2004, at 6:22 PM, Mike Lazear wrote:
We are trying to debug a problem in our code where we are clobbering
memory. We would like to create a breakpoint that happens when a
particular global variable gets changed. In XCode 1.5 I can't figure
out how to do this. This is a common feature in most debuggers. Is
this possible with XCode?
Thanks,
Mike
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