From: Clifford Heath <cjh-nospam@...>
Date: 2004-03-18T07:36:00+09:00
Subject: Does anybody Purify Ruby

After having serious reliability concerns with ruby-gtk2 on Windows,
I'm wondering if anyone has ever used Rational Purify on Ruby or its
libraries?

For those who are unfamiliar with Purify, it's *much* more than just
a memory checker. It rewrites the machine code for each module such
that every memory reference goes through a validity check, so it can
catch reads on uninitialised data, use of pointers to freed memory,
and hundreds more errors that would otherwise be impossible to catch.
A truly wonderful tool, probably the greatest software quality
breakthrough of the 90's.

If Ruby hasn't been Purified, does anyone want to join in a project
to do it? I'd like to find someone with access to Purify on Unix, as
I no longer do (I have it for Windows though).

Clifford Heath.