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Fred Fish's Product-Info
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.name
dbmalloc
.fullname
Debug Malloc Library
.type
Programmer Tool
.short
Debugging malloc/realloc/free routines.
.description
This is the malloc debugging library (patchlevel 14). This library contains
a drop-in replacement for the standard dynamic memory allocation routines and
many of the other C modules that are typically used to access and/or manipulate
these data areas. The replacements function almost identically to the original
functions with the exception that they perform a significant amount of
error checking and/or validating.
This library can be used with very little (if any) changes to the original
code (many times only requiring a re-link of the executable) and provide a
full-service debugging capability.
The entire library will follow in 10 separate shar files.
This new version includes several enhancements over patch level 13 including:
* more auto-configuration tuning
* several bug fixes
In addition to the changes listed above, this version contains the
following changes since the comp.soures.reviewed release at patch
level 7, in Volume 2, Issue 1:
* Much better performance
* automatic configuration on most systems
* addition of XtAlloc routines for X window debugging
* better identification of the source of double frees
* ability to record function stack info so error reports give
the calling stack for where the data was allocated and/or the
error was detected (note: this is manually maintained by the pgm)
* more support for leak detection (especially with respect to getting
rid of leak reports on things you know are not leaks)
* additional checking of pointesr to make the library more robust
* added case insensitive string comparison routines
* several bug fixes and/or portability changes
* added ability to change the state of the fill area flag
* added capability to disallow reuse of free'd segments (so that
double frees could be more readily identified by the data in
the segment
* a couple of function name changes
* new funcs: memalign, malloc_abort, malloc_size
.version
1.14
.date
1992.09.04
.author
Conor P. Cahill
.distribution
Copyrighted but Freely Redistributable
.email
cpcahil@vti.com
.docs
FIRST-README
README
.described-by
Fred Fish (fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com)
.submittal
From comp.sources.misc Vol 32