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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 2010-07-27 21:15:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 2010-07-27 21:15:07 -0700 |
| commit | 02b7acedbb6e98113571eb9f06a5b8683b20e942 (patch) | |
| tree | d77705d4e7e3cde8eb44caf39cf0cf5a828aa9eb | |
| parent | 880113d91ef4bb74b722d63bc2d3290e5afb5fbb (diff) | |
| parent | deb9cabbf475da0b65d7acdb364987c4a15b4214 (diff) | |
| download | glibc-02b7acedbb6e98113571eb9f06a5b8683b20e942.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sourceware.org/git/glibc
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@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ * sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcmp-ssse3.S: Avoid compiling the file for ld.so. +2010-07-27 Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com> + + * manual/memory.texi (Malloc Tunable Parameters): Document + M_PERTURB. + 2010-07-26 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> [BZ #11840] diff --git a/manual/memory.texi b/manual/memory.texi index 59ea1ee342..db63c3313b 100644 --- a/manual/memory.texi +++ b/manual/memory.texi @@ -702,6 +702,11 @@ be allocated via @code{mmap}. @item M_MMAP_MAX The maximum number of chunks to allocate with @code{mmap}. Setting this to zero disables all use of @code{mmap}. +@item M_PERTURB +If non-zero, memory blocks are filled with values depending on some +low order bits of this parameter when they are allocated (except when +allocated by @code{calloc}) and freed. This can be used to debug the +use of uninitialized or freed heap memory. @end table @end deftypefun |