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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2010-07-27 21:15:07 -0700
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2010-07-27 21:15:07 -0700
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Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sourceware.org/git/glibc
Conflicts: ChangeLog
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* 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 59ea1ee..db63c33 100644
--- a/manual/memory.texi
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@@ -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