man-pages/man-pages-2.48-malloc.patch

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2007-05-11 08:49:44 +00:00
--- man-pages-2.48/man3/malloc.3.pom 2007-04-13 00:42:49.000000000 +0200
+++ man-pages-2.48/man3/malloc.3 2007-05-11 10:11:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -166,11 +166,14 @@
memory leaks can result.
If
.BR MALLOC_CHECK_
-is set to 0, any detected heap corruption is silently ignored;
-if set to 1, a diagnostic is printed on stderr;
+is set to 0, any detected heap corruption is silently ignored and
+an error message is not generated;
+if set to 1, the error message is printed on stderr, but the program
+is not aborted;
if set to 2,
-.BR abort ()
-is called immediately.
+.BR abort()
+is called immediately, but the error message is not generated;
+if set to 3, the error message is printed on stderr and program is aborted.
This can be useful because otherwise
a crash may happen much later, and the true cause for the problem
is then very hard to track down.