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Listing 5. Memory Debugging with Electric Fence within GDB

<home>$ gdb ./mytest00
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(gdb) r
Starting program: ./mytest00
 
  Electric Fence 2.0.5 Copyright (C) 1987-1998 Bruce Perens.
 
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
strcpy (dest=0x4014fffc "hell", src=0x8049948 "hello Linux users")
    at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:40
40      ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  strcpy (dest=0x4014fffc "hell", src=0x8049948 "hello Linux users")
    at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:40
#1  0x804882b in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff854) at mytest00.c:8
(gdb)