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first cut at documenting the change to malloc doing a partial 'junk' by

default and the new 'j' option to disable this; ok jmc@
OPENBSD_5_6
sthen 10 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 1.76 2014/04/22 15:02:16 jmc Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.77 2014/04/30 23:28:05 sthen Exp $
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: April 22 2014 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: April 30 2014 $
.Dt MALLOC 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -271,6 +271,11 @@ Currently junk is bytes of 0xd0 when allocating; this is pronounced
.Dq Duh .
\&:-)
Freed chunks are filled with 0xdf.
.It Cm j
.Dq Don't Junk .
By default, small chunks are always junked, and the first part of pages
is junked after free.
This flag disables the default so that no junking is performed.
.It Cm P
.Dq Move allocations within a page.
Allocations larger than half a page but smaller than a page


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