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From: mneerach@iiic.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher)
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Subject: Re: 'am I dead yet?', or, debugging
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Date: 1 Nov 90 13:57:32 GMT
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In article <1990Oct28.203959.13176@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jlee4@lion.uwaterloo.ca (Johnny Lee) writes:
>From co-workers' experience, heap scrambling in Macsbug seems to be
>less stable than heap scrambling under TMON.

What do you mean with this ? If you just mean that it causes more crashes with
incorrect programs, Macsbug is actually better than TMON. Or does Macsbug
heap scramble cause crashes in correct programs ?

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher                                   mneerach@iiic.ethz.ch
   "These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can 
    even aspire to crudeness." -- William Gibson, _Johnny Mnemonic_