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From: bryan@stiatl.UUCP (Bryan Donaldson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: memory allocation problems
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Date: 3 Jan 91 20:57:35 GMT
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gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>	Well, here is a product that looks like its just what you need:
>	Bounds-Checker by Nu-Mega Technologies, Inc.
>	The ad says that it helps in solving "pointer problems and other out-
>of-bounds memory accesses".


Unfortunately, Bounds-Checker does not check dynamically allocated 
memory space. We got the program to check our software, but as 60 to
90 % of the memory used in dynamically allocated, it wasn't very
useful.

BGD