# The devel/ElectricFence port

## electricfence-2.0.5 – library providing malloc debugging via VM protection

## Description

    Electric Fence is a different kind of malloc() debugger. It uses the virtual
    memory hardware of your system to detect when software overruns the boundaries
    of a malloc() buffer. It will also detect any accesses of memory that has
    been released by free(). Because it uses the VM hardware for detection,
    Electric Fence stops your program on the first instruction that causes
    a bounds violation. It's then trivial to use a debugger to display the
    offending statement.

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## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=1.21:textproc/groff

## Run dependencies