./devel/electricfence, Different kind of malloc() debugger

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Branch: pkgsrc-2008Q3, Version: 2.1nb1, Package name: ElectricFence-2.1nb1, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

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

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SHA1: 1794db6d446f31045ebf845543cf6759cbab1e4f
RMD160: 4513b43b2c9b4212822c2b2d749b6485909d8f67
Filesize: 46.794 KB

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