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Value of Enforcer

    31-Mar-94 06:51:15
Fm: Gerald Bonnstetter 71172,3141
To: Shraddhan 70374,754
Do get and use Mungwall. If I may add a bit to what Jim said, Mungwall also helps catch bad reads by filling unused memory with a special pattern x'DEADBEEF'. Mungwalls main disadvantages are that it slows your system down a small bit and you use up your memory a bit faster because of the walls around each memory allocation. So you may want to use Mungwall only while testing. And to add to what Steve said, yes you also want to use Enforcer. It will catch any read or write to unavailable memory. Enforcer does not slow your system down and it should be run all the time. Enforcers only fault is that not all Amigas have an MMU and that not all developers use Enforcer. I feel that any program that will be released to the public should be tested on an Amiga running Enforcer and Mungwall. Its not done as long as there are hits reported by either program. // \X/ Amiga or bust! Gary Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft