Added documentation for --ignore-ranges. It's not very good, though, if

anyone can explain clearly why it's useful and wants to add that information
that would be helpful.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10713

diff --git a/memcheck/docs/mc-manual.xml b/memcheck/docs/mc-manual.xml
index afcdba6c42fd23a0a422da0ba4ea3065f3cd2aea..95a32f3484dbbc0b6370f5b28b72a0fafff9050c 100644 (file)
--- a/memcheck/docs/mc-manual.xml
+++ b/memcheck/docs/mc-manual.xml
@@ -257,6 +257,17 @@ difficult-to-diagnose crashes.</para>
     </listitem>
   </varlistentry>
 
+  <varlistentry id="opt.ignore-ranges" xreflabel="--ignore-ranges">
+    <term>
+      <option><![CDATA[--ignore-ranges=0xPP-0xQQ[,0xRR-0xSS] ]]></option>
+    </term>
+    <listitem>
+    <para>Any ranges listed in this option (and multiple ranges can be
+    specified, separated by commas) will be ignored by Memcheck's
+    addressability checking.
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
   <varlistentry id="opt.malloc-fill" xreflabel="--malloc-fill">
     <term>
       <option><![CDATA[--malloc-fill=<hexnumber> ]]></option>