Compiler testing and bug detection are critical areas in software development, particularly because compilers serve as the backbone for translating high-level programming languages into machine code.

It’s a staple of spy thriller movies, that the protagonist has some kind of electronic scanner with which he theatrically searches his hotel room to reveal the bad guys’ attempt to bug him.

This paper presents HeapMon, a heap memory bug-detection scheme that has a very low performance overhead, is automatic, and is easy to deploy. HeapMon relies on two new techniques. First, it decouples ...