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Is there a predefined probe for detecting memory corruption?

April 26, 2017corruption detecting memory predefined probe

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Is there a predefined probe for detecting memory corruption?

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Yes. The “memcheck” probe, introduced in version 2.1.3 (February 2004) uses a “fence” mechanism to detect corruption of allocated (but not stack/local) memory. It also reports double deallocations.