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Electric Fence is a different kind of malloc() debugger. It uses the virtual
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memory hardware of your system to detect when software overruns the boundaries
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of a malloc() buffer. It will also detect any accesses of memory that has
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been released by free(). Because it uses the VM hardware for detection,
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Electric Fence stops your program on the first instruction that causes
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a bounds violation. It's then trivial to use a debugger to display the
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offending statement.
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