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Why doesn’t HeapValidate detect corruption in the managed heap?

January 30, 2013 Jan 30, 2013 01/30/13

Raymond Chen

A customer had a program that was corrupting the managed heap by p/invoking incorrectly. The problem didn't show up until the next garbage collection pass, at which point the CLR got all freaked-out-like. "According to Knowledge Base article 286470, the tool is supposed to catch heap corruption, but it doesn't catch squat." Depending on ...