Re: Memory trashing

> >A tool like Purify or even the bounds checking version of gcc will do a > >much better job of this than any tricks we could add to PHP. > > I'm afraid that's not quite true. Most users don't have those tools either > because they are commerciall or not widely available in ready to use form. Most users don't need them. As long as somebody somewhere runs PHP through such a tool, it is adequate. Stig has run PHP through Purify in the past. > I see no disadvantage in having this kind of memory tracking support unless > you just don't feel like doing it. In that case I may volunteer to do it > myself. Well, you could add it to your version and do your debugging. I really don't think making any fundamental memory allocation related changes in the stable 3.0 tree is a good idea though. -Rasmus -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net