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Aug 5, 2007, 5:18:07 PM (17 years ago)

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 You can also use the Watcom debugger. It can give you a call trace too.
 
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+=== Can a hardware breakpoint be used to detect a spurious write? ===
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+You can if the exception address shown in the popuplog P2 field is consistent.
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+=== If all the traps are in the library code, what does this possibly mean? ===
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+This is not unusual for buffer overflows. Each buffer in the heap has a
+header and depending on the implementation a trailer which contains counts
+and/or pointers. If you wipe out one of these, a trap will follow soon
+enough.
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