Nieminen Juha <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> writes:

>   Wouldn't it be a good idea to run the program through a utility which
> checks memory usage validity etc? It may catch several bugs.
>   I think there's a utility called purify, but I think it works only with
> C++. I also think that it's commercial and costs a lot.

It works fine with C code too. I have used it once with the megapatch and
got several dozens of errors "uninitialized memory read". Since Nathan
replied that it doesn't matter since the value isn't used anyway, I was
discouraged to search for other errors.

Thomas


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