Short: detect accesses to non-allocated mem Author: thomas.richter@alumni.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter) Uploader: thomas richter alumni tu-berlin de (Thomas Richter) Type: dev/debug Version: 40.52 Requires: a 68020/68851, 68030, 68040 or 68060 with a working MMU Architecture: m68k-amigaos >= 2.0.4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 40.52 release of MuGuardianAngel added support for SegTracker v47 and is thus able to print symbol and line number information in faulty binaries if such information is present, and SegTracker was instructed to load them. The latest SegTracker version is included as contribution. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 40.51 release of MuGuardianAngel only fixes a tiny bug that was detected by Alexander Benedictov, namely that MuGA failed to check on exit whether AllocAbs() was patched over. This release adds the missing check. Thanks, Sascha! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This version is a re-release of the version Christian Sauer fixed. It merges all developments back into the main branch, but does not include further functionalities. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- MuGuardianAngel is a mmu.library aware debugging tool that works very much like the original "Guardian Angel". It access-protects non-allocated memory blocks by the MMU to detect even more illegal pointer usage. It will also provide all "MungWall" and "WipeOut" features, including memory pool watches, periodic memory consistency checks and disassembler output. MuGuardianAngel requires "MuForce" to be up and running, which is included in this archive. 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