--- man-pages-2.51/man3/malloc.3.pom	2007-05-29 15:31:43.000000000 +0200
+++ man-pages-2.51/man3/malloc.3	2007-05-29 15:42:33.000000000 +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 (3)
-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.