[RFC] Simple checking allocator

Andi Kleen andi@firstfloor.org
Wed Nov 13 15:34:00 GMT 2013


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:28:09AM +0100, Petr Machata wrote:
> Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:05:45AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz> writes:
> >> >
> >> > Comments?
> >> 
> >> Better to just rely on valgrind or AddressSanitizer? Those 
> >> will be always better for this.
> >> 
> > Could if you accept a slowdown. 
> 
> Doesn't ElectrictFence do pretty much the same thing without slowdow

valgrind/AS do detect much more errors than electric fence,
they are much more powerful.

-Andi



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