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On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 12:05:02 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Or one that says  'look at our list of allocated block compare with the
> pointer and if no match, segfault'

https://elinux.org/Electric_Fence

I often use efence as a quick check. valgrind is more comprehensive but 
when you run the programs with gdb any questionable access drops you into 
the debugger then and there.