wip: initial work on tracking source of an allocation in debug mode

test/main-override-static.c

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ static void double_free1();
 static void double_free2();
 static void corrupt_free();
 static void block_overflow1();
+static void dangling_ptr_write();
 
 int main() {
   mi_version();
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ int main() {
   // double_free2();
   // corrupt_free();
   // block_overflow1();
+  dangling_ptr_write();
 
   void* p1 = malloc(78);
   void* p2 = malloc(24);
@@ -49,6 +51,14 @@ static void block_overflow1() {
   free(p);
 }
 
+static void dangling_ptr_write() {
+  for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
+    uint8_t* p = (uint8_t*)mi_malloc(16);
+    free(p);
+    p[0] = 0;
+  }  
+}
+
 // The double free samples come ArcHeap [1] by Insu Yun (issue #161)
 // [1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.00503.pdf
 

test/main-override.cpp

@@ -23,10 +23,12 @@ public:
   ~Test() { }
 };
 
+void dangling_ptr_write();
 
 int main() {
   mi_stats_reset();  // ignore earlier allocations
   atexit(free_p);
+  dangling_ptr_write();
   void* p1 = malloc(78);
   void* p2 = mi_malloc_aligned(16,24);
   free(p1);  
@@ -53,6 +55,14 @@ int main() {
   return 0;
 }
 
+static void dangling_ptr_write() {
+  for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
+    uint8_t* p = new uint8_t[16];
+    free(p);
+    p[0] = 0;
+  }
+}
+
 class Static {
 private:
   void* p;