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Re: For review: mtrace(1) man page


Hi Tushar,

On 07/22/2014 09:45 AM, Tushar Shinde wrote:
Hi Jan,

Is this MTRACEDATA is same as environment variable MALLOC_TRACE of MTRACE(3) ? If yes we should keep MALLOC_TRACE instead of MTRACEDATA to avoid confusion.

Tushar

thank you for noticing. Those are script arguments, not environment variables. Changed bold into underline.

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.TH MTRACE 1 2013-04-10 "GNU glibc 2.18" "Memory diagnostic tools"
.SH NAME
mtrace \- interpret the malloc trace log
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR mtrace " [\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIBINARY\fR] \fIMTRACEDATA\fR"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mtrace
is a Perl script used to interpret and provide human readable output
of the trace log created by
.BR mtrace (3)
function stored in the
\fIMTRACEDATA\fR
file.
If
\fIBINARY\fR
is provided, output of
.B mtrace
also contains source file name with line number information
of problem location
(assuming that
\fIBINARY\fR
was compiled with debugging information).

For more information about
.BR mtrace (3)
function and
.B mtrace
script usage, refer to the
.BR mtrace (3)
manual page.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \fB\-\-help
Print help and exit.
.TP
.BI \fB\-\-version
Print version information and exit.
.SH BUGS
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html>.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR mtrace (3)


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