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-rw-r--r--README3
-rw-r--r--memstomp.c8
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 095a82f..3ba3d32 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ NOTES:
situations where locks are taken or memory allocated as we do
it here. YMMV.
+ memstomp also has a '--kill' option that kills the application
+ at the first problem memcpy.
+
Note that valgrind can perform this type of check also.
memstomp merely lowers the overhead for this type of check.
diff --git a/memstomp.c b/memstomp.c
index 1089e75..f780fa7 100644
--- a/memstomp.c
+++ b/memstomp.c
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@
#endif
#include <signal.h>
-#define KILL_TRAP raise(SIGABRT)
+#define ABRT_TRAP raise(SIGSEGV)
-static bool kill_trap = false;
+static bool abrt_trap = false;
#ifndef SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK
/* "Your libc lacks the definition of SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK. We'll now
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static void setup(void) {
"memstomp: useful stack traces.\n\n");
if (getenv("MEMSTOMP_KILL"))
- kill_trap = true;
+ abrt_trap = true;
initialized = true;
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ void * memcpy(void * dest, const void * src, size_t count)
/* Check for overlap. */
if (distance < count) {
- if (kill_trap) KILL_TRAP;
+ if (abrt_trap) ABRT_TRAP;
/* report the overlap */
warn_memcpy(dest, src, count);
}