Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Ben Zorn - Memory robustness with RobustHeap http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/456617_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Ben Zorn - Memory robustness with RobustHeap Ben Zorn gives an introduction to the problems of memory corruption. In particular, he talks about his work on new memory allocators that provide fault tolerance and detection of errors such as dangling pointers. Very cool whiteboard session, enjoy. RobustHeap: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/robustheap/ DH: http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/emery/index.php?page=diehard The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA. en Sat, 25 May 2013 08:05:14 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 08:05:14 GMT Rev9 Re: Ben Zorn - Memory robustness with RobustHeap
 

posted by SteveRichter

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Peli/Ben-Zorn-Memory-robustness-with-RobustHeap#c633698959650000000 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:52:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Peli/Ben-Zorn-Memory-robustness-with-RobustHeap#c633698959650000000 SteveRichter Re: Ben Zorn - Memory robustness with RobustHeap Emmett Witchel).  He's proposed using such a mechanism to detect illegal stores, however no current commercial hardware supports his mechanism.   There are also a number of papers describing either hardware or software mechanisms for detecting out-of-bounds reads and writes, and existing tools, such as BoundsChecker, can also be used.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Peli/Ben-Zorn-Memory-robustness-with-RobustHeap#c633699839400000000 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:19:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Peli/Ben-Zorn-Memory-robustness-with-RobustHeap#c633699839400000000 BenZorn