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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-03-23 11:53:10 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-03-23 11:53:10 +0000
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Update.
1998-03-23 07:52 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * elf/dl-close.c (_dl_close): Fix byte count while removing the shared object from the global scope list and optimize a little bit. 1998-03-22 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * manual/filesys.texi (Scanning Directory Content): Add missing closing brace. (Scanning Directory Content): Fix text. 1998-03-22 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * manual/memory.texi (Heap Consistency Checking): Add paragraph explaining difference of -lmcheck and MALLOC_CHECK_. 1998-03-23 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fstatvfs.c (fstatvfs): Correct some typos in comments. 1998-03-20 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * test-skeleton.c (main): Fix test for exit signal. 1998-03-22 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/generic/strtok_r.c: Undefine __strtok_r. 1998-03-22 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/generic/memcmp.c [_LIBC]: Define WORDS_BIGENDIAN as appropriate. 1998-03-23 11:14 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * libc.map: Export __strtok_r. 1998-03-23 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * posix/regex.c (re_compile_fastmap): Remove unused variable num_regs and adjust comment. Patch by Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>. * math/math.h (M_*l): Extend long double constants to be usable for 128 bit floats. Patch by Richard Henderson. 1998-03-23 11:16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> Patch by Tim Waugh and Andreas Schwab.
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@@ -625,6 +625,13 @@ immediately. 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.
+So, what's the difference between using @code{MALLOC_CHECK_} and linking
+with @samp{-lmcheck}? @code{MALLOC_CHECK_} is orthognal with respect to
+@samp{-lmcheck}. @samp{-lmcheck} has been added for backward
+compatibility. Both @code{MALLOC_CHECK_} and @samp{-lmcheck} should
+uncover the same bugs - but using @code{MALLOC_CHECK_} you don't need to
+recompile your application.
+
@node Hooks for Malloc
@subsection Storage Allocation Hooks
@cindex allocation hooks, for @code{malloc}