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@@ -132,6 +132,12 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
no longer have any effect on malloc.
+* Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
+ (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
+ disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
+ features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
+ this functionality back.
+
Changes to build and runtime requirements:
* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the