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From: rclark@concour.cs.concordia.ca (CLARK richard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: BoundsChecker
Message-ID: <488@daily-planet.concordia.ca>
Date: 15 Jun 91 15:41:22 GMT
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In article <43307@cup.portal.com> ekalenda@cup.portal.com (Edward John Kalenda)
writes:
>
>I haven't used BoundsChecker yet so I can't comment on it.

I haven't used it either, but it received a "Best of 1990" Award from
PC Magazine. (PC Magazine, January 15, 1991).  In a brief review in that
issue, Salvatore P. Ricciardi states :

(this is an excerpt )

     The 80386 and 80486 have spawned a number of programs dedicated to making
use of their superior capabilities.  If you're a programmer, the [price 
omitted] Bounds Checker may prove to be the one dearest to your heart.
     Bounds-Checker helps you find memory overwrites - bugs in your code ...

     When an out-of-bounds access occurs, Bounds-Checker flags it immediately
and pops up a screen display pinpointing the line in your program that 
caused the problems...  You can add ... to the exception file to that lists
these "valid" accesses.

... If you're developing DOS software on a 286, Bounds-Checker is your reason
to upgrade.


The program received a full review in PC Magazine, July 1990, page 48.




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rick clark (rclark@concour.cs.concordia.ca)
Concordia University, Montreal.