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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/malloc.9 | 11 |
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diff --git a/share/man/man9/malloc.9 b/share/man/man9/malloc.9 index fe202838164..216e0b90934 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/malloc.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/malloc.9 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.9,v 1.20 2002/08/28 08:28:20 tdeval Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.9,v 1.21 2002/12/20 06:05:31 art Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: malloc.9,v 1.2 1996/10/30 05:29:54 lukem Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. @@ -427,9 +427,12 @@ and .Va debug_malloc_size_hi Can be used to specify a range of sizes if the exact size to debug is not known. -When those are used, you need to set +When those are used, .Va debug_malloc_size -to the wildcard. +needs to be set to the wildcard. +.Dv M_DEBUG +can also be specified as an allocation type to force allocation with +debugging. .Pp Every call to .Fn malloc @@ -449,7 +452,7 @@ freed memory. There are no special diagnostics if any errors are caught by the debugging malloc. The errors will look like normal access to unmapped memory. -When you get a memory access error, you can invoke the +When you get a memory access error, invoke the .Ic show malloc command in .Xr ddb 4 |