[tlbuild] Repeated Mac arm64 crashes of xdvi-xaw with "set_no_char: attempt to set character of unknown font, offset 42"
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe at math.utah.edu
Wed Jan 26 00:41:49 CET 2022
Another possibility is to link xdvi-xaw with the Electric Fence
library, -lefence. Many O/S distributions have it (Red Hat:
ElectricFence.x86_64, Ubuntu 20.04: electric-fence, FreeBSD:
electricfence, ...).
The link https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Electric_Fence for source code
points to http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/ElectricFence/, but that link
is currently broken.
You control ElectricFence by defining environment variables, and
unlike valgrind, the program runs at normal speed, with debug reports
only produced when memory violations are observed. Ater installation,
"man efence" gives details.
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