You can get pretty tough protection with address sanitizer (it works technically a bit different). It doesn't come for free however. It's much faster and better

You can get pretty tough protection with address sanitizer (it works technically a bit different). It doesn't come for free however. It's much faster and better than anything that was there before (e.g. valgrind), but the performance impact is still significant. Still I think address sanitizer is an amazing project that should definitely get some more publicity.