On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:32:54AM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: > In a previous version of the patch, I included compile-time support > for redzones around allocations. Kris Kennaway did a full ports tree > build with redzones enabled, and several ports caused redzone > corruption, but in every case it was due to writing one byte past the > end of an allocation. None of these were serious, since word > alignment required that the "corrupted" byte be unused. I suspect > that we would catch very few serious errors, even if redzones were > enabled by default. You can make red zones word-aligned in addition to byte-aligned variant, both as malloc options, of course. -- http://ache.pp.ru/Received on Wed Nov 30 2005 - 13:40:12 UTC
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