Watch a memory location/install 'data breakpoint' from code?

Question

We have a memory overwrite problem. At some point, during the course of our program, a memory location is being overwritten and causing our program to crash. the problem hap

Answer 1

There are tools for this - like heap agent and boundschecker and many others that will discover overwrites. Basically you need some sentinels at the end of your memory allocations and they need to be checked.