guarded-allocation: Memory allocation with added stress tests and integrity checks

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Provide adaptions of mallocForeignPtrArray and allocaArray that add stress tests and integrity checks.

There are three modules:

It is intended that you always import the Guarded module in user code and install a package version with enabled debug flag to a custom package database for debugging. If you compile your user program you can choose production or debugging mode by choosing the default or the custom debugging package database, respectively.

This package is inspired by the famous Amiga debug tool MungWall. The Linux counterpart is Electric Fence.


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Versions 0.0, 0.0, 0.0.1
Change log None available
Dependencies base (>=4.5 && <5) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Henning Thielemann <haskell@henning-thielemann.de>
Maintainer Henning Thielemann <haskell@henning-thielemann.de>
Category Debug
Home page http://hub.darcs.net/thielema/guarded-allocation/
Source repo this: darcs get http://hub.darcs.net/thielema/guarded-allocation/ --tag 0.1
head: darcs get http://hub.darcs.net/thielema/guarded-allocation/
Uploaded by HenningThielemann at 2018-08-07T10:04:01Z

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The overall idea of the package is to make programming mistakes let low-level programs fail reproducibly.

What the routines do:

Range violations might alternatively be detected by range checking techniques. Allocation problems might be solved using Regions. The provided functions might overlook range violations but they help detecting bugs when you have not full control over the code that processes memory content, e.g. when calling external routines via FFI.