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		jacquesm on Oct 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Beating C with Futhark Running on GPU For a slightly improved version, place a sentinel (say a 4 byte magic number) just before and after the allocated segment. Check on FREE_MEMORY if they're still there. Not perfect but pretty good as an early warning system.

jstimpfle on Oct 26, 2019 [–]

Yes. Another possibility, add something with __FILE__ and __LINE__ if there are memory leaks to debug. (Never did that but it should help).

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