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From: sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu
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Subject: Borland C++'s "heapcheck" function
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Date: 29 May 91 22:34:47 GMT
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I have been looking through my new Borland C++ stuff and ran into the functions
that start with "heap" such as heapcheck(), heapcheckfree(), heapfillfree(),
heapwalk(), etc.

Anyone have experience with them?  The documentation is shoddy.  It seems to
imply that they can be used to track errant bugs, and the guy I talked to at
Borland seemed pretty confused ("Well, um, yeah, I guess it could be used for
finding bad pointers".  "Then what else could I use it for?"  "Oh, to see if
you've overwritten memory" )


If you have any ideas, I'd like to know what they do.

Brian
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