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| author | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2003-10-16 04:08:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2003-10-16 04:08:02 +0000 |
| commit | 2d421e4f94a0d6847efe7b12b1c2fd85762a44f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 37b70a7b7a4c19c4a6c760c1d3f8e8b6e8cf0b50 | |
| parent | e0d39f93b5abe4ae984a4e846e02b3cb92e1d1dc (diff) | |
More detail on the use of MALLOC_DEBUG
| -rw-r--r-- | extra/Configs/Config.in | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/extra/Configs/Config.in b/extra/Configs/Config.in index 069fed597..2f2276fd8 100644 --- a/extra/Configs/Config.in +++ b/extra/Configs/Config.in @@ -976,10 +976,18 @@ config UCLIBC_MALLOC_DEBUGGING default n help Answer Y here to compile extra debugging support code into malloc. - Malloc debugging output may then be enabled at runtime using - the MALLOC_DEBUG environment variable. Because this increases - the size of malloc appreciably (due to strings etc), you - should say N unless you need to debug a malloc problem. + Malloc debugging output may then be enabled at runtime using the + MALLOC_DEBUG environment variable. + + The value of MALLOC_DEBUG should be an integer, which is interpreted as + a bitmask with the following bits: + 1 - do extra consistency checking + 2 - output messages for malloc/free calls and OS allocation calls + 4 - output messages for the `MMB' layer + 8 - output messages for internal malloc heap manipulation calls + + Because this increases the size of malloc appreciably (due to strings + etc), you should say N unless you need to debug a malloc problem. config UCLIBC_MJN3_ONLY bool "Manuel's hidden warnings" |