From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:27:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added note about the g_slice facility in GLib.
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Added note about the g_slice facility in GLib.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@8411
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diff --git a/drd/docs/drd-manual.xml b/drd/docs/drd-manual.xml
index f6ac6ddf3e..b24a0168b7 100644
--- a/drd/docs/drd-manual.xml
+++ b/drd/docs/drd-manual.xml
@@ -998,6 +998,16 @@ GNOME applications use the threading primitives provided by the
 on top of POSIX threads, and is hence directly supported by DRD.
 </para>
 
+<para>
+One of the many facilities provided by the <literal>glib</literal>
+library is a block allocator, called <literal>g_slice</literal>. You
+have to disable this block allocator when using DRD by adding the
+following to the shell environment variables:
+<literal>G_SLICE=always-malloc</literal>. See also the <ulink
+url="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Memory-Slices.html">GLib
+Reference Manual</ulink> for more information.
+</para>
+
 </sect2>