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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Sunday, September 7, 2003 10:43:46 am | by DanielLawson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Monday, August 25, 2003 3:19:25 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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ddd(1) appears to be a reasonable [GUI] interface to gdb(1) for those that are afraid of CommandLine's.
use assert(3) everywhere. It's much nicer at finding your bugs closer to where the bug actually hides.
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+Make use of electricfence (libefence) for tracking memory allocation errors. In debian this can be enabled on the fly by setting an LD_PRELOAD variable, like so:
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+ LD_PRELOAD=libefence.so.0.0 your-buggy-programme
