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Re: malloc/free.. callback functions

From: Seshubabu Pasam <pasam_at_seshubabu.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:50:18 -0700

Holger Rauch wrote:

>Hi Seshubabu!
>
>On Mon, 05 Apr 2004, Seshubabu Pasam wrote:
>
>>I agree with you. We tried using valgrind, purify and numerous other
>>softwares. The applications I work on are huge multi-threaded,
>>multi-platform shared library plugins that are loaded by webservers
>>(Apache, IIS, Sun ...). We haven't come across a good tool that can
>>check for memory problems etc.
>>
>>
>Could you please elaborate a bit more on what errors Purify failed to
>detect? I'm interested since I'm also using Purify for our software and I've problems with false alarams related to memcmp() on Solaris.
>
>
I work mostly on web server plugins. On solaris, when I last tried purify, we were not even able to intrument our code. Purify did not support shared libraries back then. Things might be different. We were able to use purify when we had the web server code and it is instrumented by purify. I am not sure about the memcmp problems you are having.

-Seshubabu Pasam
Received on 2004-05-28