# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' on # the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must make # exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also customary to # leave one space after the ':'. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| electric-fence: Electric Fence (A malloc(3) debugger) electric-fence: electric-fence: Electric Fence is a debugger that uses virtual memory hardware to electric-fence: detect illegal memory accesses. It can detect two common programming electric-fence: bugs: software that overruns or underruns the boundaries of a malloc() electric-fence: memory allocation, and software that touches a memory allocation that electric-fence: has been released by free(). electric-fence: electric-fence: electric-fence: electric-fence: