From: yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley) Subject: Re: gcc on linux Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 02:03:56 GMT
In article <C89v9y.LMM@boulder.parcplace.com> imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes:
>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.
But in the scheme that Brandon presents, a signal should not happen
on every reference, only bad ones. Sorry, I have never used
purify, so I am really not speaking with much technical authority.
>
>Warner
>--
>Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder
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