Can I detect integer overflow flaws with valgrind?

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Can I detect integer overflow flaws with valgrind? and which tool in it can do that?

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.debugging.valgrind/7475 — perreal, Dec 28 '12 at 08:20

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 30 '12 at 21:06

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Valgrind has no tool which can detect integer overflow. You might maybe catch these bugs using the gcc option:

-ftrapv This option generates traps for signed overflow on addition, subtraction, multiplication
operations.

answered Dec 30 '12 at 21:06

phd

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