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add a note describing latest guard feature

OPENBSD_3_8
tedu 19 years ago
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.37 2004/07/02 10:42:55 jmc Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.38 2005/05/24 16:48:35 tedu Exp $
.\"
.Dd August 27, 1996
.Dt MALLOC 3
@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ Enable guard pages and chunk randomization.
Each page size or larger allocation is followed by a guard page that will
cause a segmentation fault upon any access.
Smaller than page size chunks are returned in a random order.
Pointer sized allocations are aligned to the end of a page to catch
sizeof(ptr) errors where sizeof(*ptr) is meant.
.Pp
.It Cm H
.Dq Hint .


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