[Box Backup-dev] COMMIT r483 - box/trunk/lib/common

[Martin Ebourne]

subversion@fluffy.co.uk wrote:
> +	// TODO: We really should get some decent leak detection code.

Not sure about all platforms, but certainly on linux with gcc 4 and 
recent glibc there's a load of excellent new memory checking stuff 
available at compile time (bounds checking on arrays, etc). Also leak 
detection in glibc.

In addition it is possible to compile important processes (eg. network 
facing servers) as PIC code so that they get run at a different address 
every time, thus helping to negate exploits.

I hope to make use of all of this on box at some juncture.

Cheers,

Martin.