15 Feb
2018
15 Feb
'18
5:50 a.m.
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."