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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: 28 Nov 2024 00:57:06 GMT
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:59:36 +0000, Pancho wrote:

> On 11/27/24 22:06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:27:35 +0000, Pancho wrote:
>> 
>>> I remember we ran a tool called Purify to spot this type of error,
>>> amongst other errors.
>>> Presumably that injected additional code to check reliably.
>> 
>> As I understand it, Valgrind does it on your executable without source
>> code changes.
> 
> Yeah, It was 30 years ago, I think Purify modified binary code, not
> source code, but I can't really remember. I just remember Purify was
> brilliant..

I don't know if I would call it brilliant. We had a license for a while 
but didn't renew it since it was seldom used due to the complexity of 
setting up the instrumentation. I'd used BoundsChecker years ago and it 
was no prize either.