A safer interface for core.stdc

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Feb 10 23:47:03 PST 2015


On 2/8/2015 8:32 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I think the same. In C++ circles zeroing the pointer after freeing is
> considering an antipattern - what with false sense of security etc. -- Andrei

What worked for me was using a free() that overwrote the free'd memory with 
0xFEFEFEFE or something like that. Worked great for finding bugs.

These days, valgrind does an even better job.


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