1 2010-07-27 Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
3 * manual/memory.texi (Malloc Tunable Parameters): Document
6 Index: glibc-2.12-2-gc4ccff1/manual/memory.texi
7 ===================================================================
8 --- glibc-2.12-2-gc4ccff1.orig/manual/memory.texi
9 +++ glibc-2.12-2-gc4ccff1/manual/memory.texi
10 @@ -702,6 +702,11 @@ be allocated via @code{mmap}.
12 The maximum number of chunks to allocate with @code{mmap}. Setting this
13 to zero disables all use of @code{mmap}.
15 +If non-zero, memory blocks are filled with values depending on some
16 +low order bits of this parameter when they are allocated (except when
17 +allocated by @code{calloc}) and freed. This can be used to debug the
18 +use of uninitialized or freed heap memory.