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POPL
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Cork: dynamic memory leak detection for garbage-collected languages
A memory leak in a garbage-collected program occurs when the program inadvertently maintains references to objects that it no longer needs. Memory leaks cause systematic heap grow...
Maria Jump, Kathryn S. McKinley
SOFTVIS
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
AllocRay: memory allocation visualization for unmanaged languages
A programs memory system performance is one of the key determinants of its overall performance. Lack of understanding of a programs memory system behavior can lead to performance ...
George G. Robertson, Trishul M. Chilimbi, Bongshin...
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Efficiently and precisely locating memory leaks and bloat
Inefficient use of memory, including leaks and bloat, remain a significant challenge for C and C++ developers. Applications with these problems become slower over time as their wo...
Gene Novark, Emery D. Berger, Benjamin G. Zorn
ISCA
2012
IEEE
248views Hardware» more  ISCA 2012»
11 years 7 months ago
Watchdog: Hardware for safe and secure manual memory management and full memory safety
Languages such as C and C++ use unsafe manual memory management, allowing simple bugs (i.e., accesses to an object after deallocation) to become the root cause of exploitable secu...
Santosh Nagarakatte, Milo M. K. Martin, Steve Zdan...
ACSAC
2004
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Dynamic Technique for Eliminating Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (and Other Memory Errors)
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities are caused by programming errors that allow an attacker to cause the program to write beyond the bounds of an allocated memory block to corrupt oth...
Martin C. Rinard, Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dumitran,...