-LRN: Poisoning:

  Poisons memory before freeing it. It uses msize() CRT function,
which (i believe) is not available on other platforms. This patch was
intended to make the output of the next patch (see below) more apparent.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/util/common_allocation.c b/src/util/common_allocation.c
index 5e1f75eb7..801eeeebc 100644
--- a/src/util/common_allocation.c
+++ b/src/util/common_allocation.c
@@ -198,6 +198,17 @@ GNUNET_xfree_ (void *ptr, const char *filename, int linenumber)
   ptr = &((size_t *) ptr)[-1];
   mem_used -= *((size_t *) ptr);
 #endif
+#if WINDOWS
+#if ENABLE_POISONING
+  {
+    size_t i;
+    char baadfood[4] = "\xBA\xAD\xF0\x0D";
+    size_t s = _msize (ptr);
+    for (i = 0; i < s; i++)
+      ((char *) ptr)[i] = baadfood[i % 4];
+  }
+#endif
+#endif
   free (ptr);
 }