From: "Artūras Moskvinas" <arturas.moskvinas@gmail.com>
To: cracraft@cox.net
Cc: help-gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: bounds checking a GCC program]
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4576FC92.1030102@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14990720.1165424736004.JavaMail.root@fed1wml09.mgt.cox.net>
> The issue that I had to solve by arduously single-stepping
> through a complex program (took a week) turned out to
> be a pointer stepping outside of pre-determined places
> within a single-dimensional array; that is, the pointer
> stayed within the overall array but stepped outside of
> determined areas within the array and this resulted
> in the clobbering of areas elsewhere.
>
> Having bounds checking that tells me when it stepped
> out of the overall array would not have helped.
>
> What is needed is something that says has it stepped
> out of a pre-defined area within a single array.
>
> My application is written in C and maintains its own
> stack which is what was clobbered.
>
Try www.valgrind.org for program debugging...
Arturas M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-06 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-06 17:05 Stuart Cracraft
2006-12-06 17:17 ` Perry Smith
2006-12-06 17:23 ` Perry Smith
2006-12-06 17:23 ` Artūras Moskvinas [this message]
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2006-12-06 21:40 Stuart Cracraft
2006-12-06 14:35 Stuart Cracraft
2006-12-06 15:09 ` Tim Prince
2006-12-06 15:43 ` Paulo J. Matos
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