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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1998-03-23 11:53:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1998-03-23 11:53:10 +0000 |
| commit | 789b13c4e808dfcdd58d52bc5f4221047fee57e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 535adca7a43ba39ce0eb18c0c74d0517594d9b8c /manual/memory.texi | |
| parent | 9a24f9061c4e5e567350734bfb6a2aaa4e2106dc (diff) | |
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Update.
1998-03-23 07:52 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* elf/dl-close.c (_dl_close): Fix byte count while removing
the shared object from the global scope list and optimize
a little bit.
1998-03-22 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* manual/filesys.texi (Scanning Directory Content): Add missing
closing brace.
(Scanning Directory Content): Fix text.
1998-03-22 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* manual/memory.texi (Heap Consistency Checking): Add paragraph
explaining difference of -lmcheck and MALLOC_CHECK_.
1998-03-23 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fstatvfs.c (fstatvfs): Correct some
typos in comments.
1998-03-20 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* test-skeleton.c (main): Fix test for exit signal.
1998-03-22 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/generic/strtok_r.c: Undefine __strtok_r.
1998-03-22 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/generic/memcmp.c [_LIBC]: Define WORDS_BIGENDIAN as
appropriate.
1998-03-23 11:14 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* libc.map: Export __strtok_r.
1998-03-23 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* posix/regex.c (re_compile_fastmap): Remove unused variable
num_regs and adjust comment.
Patch by Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>.
* math/math.h (M_*l): Extend long double constants to be usable
for 128 bit floats. Patch by Richard Henderson.
1998-03-23 11:16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Patch by Tim Waugh and Andreas Schwab.
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diff --git a/manual/memory.texi b/manual/memory.texi index 09147bc..262d772 100644 --- a/manual/memory.texi +++ b/manual/memory.texi @@ -625,6 +625,13 @@ immediately. This can be useful because otherwise a crash may happen much later, and the true cause for the problem is then very hard to track down. +So, what's the difference between using @code{MALLOC_CHECK_} and linking +with @samp{-lmcheck}? @code{MALLOC_CHECK_} is orthognal with respect to +@samp{-lmcheck}. @samp{-lmcheck} has been added for backward +compatibility. Both @code{MALLOC_CHECK_} and @samp{-lmcheck} should +uncover the same bugs - but using @code{MALLOC_CHECK_} you don't need to +recompile your application. + @node Hooks for Malloc @subsection Storage Allocation Hooks @cindex allocation hooks, for @code{malloc} |