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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2009-10-22 11:33:38 +0200
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2009-10-22 11:33:38 +0200
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enhanced test environment (including testbench)
support for enhancing probability of memory addressing failure by using non-NULL default value for malloced memory (optional, only if requested by configure option). This helps to track down some otherwise undetected issues within the testbench and is expected to be very useful in the future.
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diff --git a/runtime/debug.c b/runtime/debug.c
index 476f8bf7..fa57a8d8 100644
--- a/runtime/debug.c
+++ b/runtime/debug.c
@@ -1254,6 +1254,20 @@ dbgPrintNameIsInList(const uchar *pName, dbgPrintName_t *pRoot)
}
+/* this is a special version of malloc that fills the alloced memory with
+ * HIGHVALUE, as this helps to identify bugs. -- rgerhards, 2009-10-22
+ */
+void *
+dbgmalloc(size_t size)
+{
+ void *pRet;
+ pRet = malloc(size);
+ if(pRet != NULL)
+ memset(pRet, 0xff, size);
+ return pRet;
+}
+
+
/* read in the runtime options
* rgerhards, 2008-02-28
*/