Re: how to break on a write to a specific mem location?

[maxmagna]

actually Electric Fence worked pretty well and found the problem: array
boundary overrun.
thanks for the suggestion.

----- Original Message -----
From: "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: how to break on a write to a specific mem location?


> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 07:52:55 -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> >    I am trying to debug a bug that looks like memory corruption: the
> >    content of a memory location which should not change after start up
is
> >    in reality altered. I want to find out the backtrace when that
happens.
>
> Sounds like a situation I'd try Electric Fence on.
>
> HTH,
> Ray
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