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From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: gcc on linux
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 22:17:57 GMT

In article <1993Jun7.204515.7634@kf8nh.wariat.org>
bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>The concept behind purify is fairly simple: [...]

While that would be a reasonable way to implement purify, I think that
purify uses a series of calls to runtime checking routines, rather
than signal handlers to implement what it does. I'm not positive, but
it seems that purify runs too fast to be trapping on every data/bss
reference.

Warner

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