I've been experimenting with Electric Fence lately and I can't figure out how to use it with c++ code. Here's an example: // test.cpp #include <cstdlib> using namespace std; int main() ...

std::map<int,int> bar; int foo(int key) { bar.erase(key); return 1; } int main() { bar[0] = foo(0); return 0; } This code compiled with GCC 4.8 segs fault when checking memory usage ...

I have created a buggy program - buggy.c - this is a buffer-overflow scenario for buffer t. You can see that I am writing more than 5 indexes. It works fine. It never throws me an error. I was wond...

When debugging a program that terminates with a segfault, electric fence, in conjunction with gdb, returns this: "ElectricFence Exiting: mprotect() failed: Cannot allocate memory [Thread 0xb0bd4b7...

I recently encountered my first battle (solved) with heap corruption. On my linux machine at home the culprit code exits without error using valgrind and electric-fence(with gdb). Yet on the window...