Re: memory checkers and gcc support

2005-03-13 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, J. Hart wrote: Valgrind is an excellent product as far as it goes, but is x86 only, and apparently lacks the sort of stack checking that Purify and Checker have. Valgrind is currently being officially ported to several other platforms. We hope to have AMD64/Linux and PPC32/Linu

Re: memory checkers and gcc support

2005-03-13 Thread Diego Novillo
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:42:18AM +0900, J. Hart wrote: > Are there currently any other facilities in gcc for this kind of support > for memory checkers ? > You may want to try -fmudflap in current 4.0 snapshots. Diego.

memory checkers and gcc support

2005-03-13 Thread J. Hart
I would like to investigate the possibility of reviving Checker (checkergcc), or providing another facility with similar capabilities. I would like to have it be as portable as possible, as I wish to use it on a number of different platforms. I would also like to have the sort of stack checking t