Electric Fence?

Rob Browning rlb@defaultvalue.org
Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:51:05 -0600


Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> writes:

> So, has anyone else tried using EF to debug Gnucash?  I
> think there is a memory corruption problem, but I can't
> tell if it's my code, gnome/gtk, or Gnucash in general.
> Basically, the bug I'm seeing is that a bug of GtkWidgets
> are getting corrupted in one of my dialog windows.  I'm
> expecting it's a bug in my own code, but I'm having trouble
> tracking it down (let alone reproducing it).

I have, but I was running sub-parts of gnucash, I think, and I have
512MB RAM and equal swap.  I've heard that EF is not likely to work
all that well for large apps with many allocations.

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