Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:59:36 +0000, Pancho wrote:

On 11/27/24 22:06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:27:35 +0000, Pancho wrote:
 

I remember we ran a tool called Purify to spot this type of error,
amongst other errors.
Presumably that injected additional code to check reliably.

 
As I understand it, Valgrind does it on your executable without source
code changes.

 
Yeah, It was 30 years ago, I think Purify modified binary code, not
source code, but I can't really remember. I just remember Purify was
brilliant..

I don't know if I would call it brilliant. We had a license for a while
but didn't renew it since it was seldom used due to the complexity of
setting up the instrumentation. I'd used BoundsChecker years ago and it
was no prize either.