Darryl Gove's blog
Article on discover (tool for detecting memory access errors)
My (brief) article on the Sun Memory Error Discovery Tool (aka discover) has gone live on the developer portal. The tool is designed to find memory access errors. It instruments the code and checks each memory access to see if it is valid. It can detect things like access to uninitialised memory, or accesses past the end of arrays. These can be really hard to find by inspecting the source, and even from core dumps - the symptoms of the problem often occur long after the memory access error has occurred. The one constraint on the tool is that it is currently only for single threaded apps.
Posted at 02:03PM Sep 12, 2007 by Darryl Gove in Sun |
