[Gllug] Memory Leak Detecting

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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Daniel P. Berrange announced authoritatively:
> If you have the luxury of being able to use such a new GCC (or have
> Fedora Core 3 or RHEL-4), then also go for the -DFORTIFY_SOURCE=2 
> option which does compile checking of certain buffer overflow
> conditions
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/009jul05/features/execshield/#checks

As of GCC 4.1, this will have merged with a (portable) re-implementation
of ProPolice; -fstack-protector, -fstack-protector-all and
-Wstack-protector will be supported for runtime stack-smash checking.

(But that's runtime, not compile-time, which isn't what was asked for.)

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