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decribe 'F' better and mention flags are debugging aids; ok tedu@ jmc@

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otto 16 years ago
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@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.60 2008/12/30 07:44:51 djm Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.61 2009/02/13 18:49:14 otto Exp $
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: December 30 2008 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: February 13 2009 $
.Dt MALLOC 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -233,6 +233,10 @@ order to have any effect.
Enable use after free protection.
Unused pages on the freelist are read and write protected to
cause a segmentation fault upon access.
This will also switch off the delayed freeing of chunks,
reducing random behaviour but detecting double
.Fn free
calls as early as possible.
.It Cm G
.Dq Guard .
Enable guard pages.
@ -298,12 +302,10 @@ Increase the size of the free page cache by a factor of two.
So to set a systemwide reduction of cache size and use guard pages:
.Dl # ln -s 'G\*(Lt' /etc/malloc.conf
.Pp
The
.Cm J
and
.Cm Z
flags are mostly for testing and debugging.
If a program changes behavior if either of these options are used,
The flags are mostly for testing and debugging.
If a program changes behavior if any of these options (except
.Cm X )
are used,
it is buggy.
.Pp
The default number of free pages cached is 64.


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