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Valgrind should catch double frees/use of free'd data though, shouldnt it?

Robin
– Robin

2014-08-16 01:15:54 +00:00
Commented Aug 16, 2014 at 1:15
Writing this kind of overloads for new/delete has helped me locate numerous memory corruption issues. Especially the guard bytes which get verified on delete and causes a program triggered break point which automatically drops me into debugger.

Emily L.
– Emily L.

2017-01-24 20:46:03 +00:00
Commented Jan 24, 2017 at 20:46

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