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Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mtrace: record backtrace of memory allocation/deallocation
Thanks for commenting on my patch.
On 21/11/18 05:47, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2018, Kyeong Yoo wrote:
>
>> +To generate more detailed backtrace information of function calls to
>> +@code{malloc} etc, set an environment variable named @code{MALLOC_TRACE_LEVEL}
>> +with a number between 1 and 15. This indicates the maximum number of
>> +function pointers to generate in the backtrace information.
>
> @env for environment variables; two spaces after "." in Texinfo sources.
I see. Will be fixed in a new revision.
>
>> +A list of pointers are printed with '#' mark before each memory
>
> ' is a right quote in Texinfo, so you need @samp{#} for proper quoting.
Thanks.
>
>> +For cross-compilation, @code{mtrace} can generate meaningful output
>> +with additional command line options @code{--prefix=PREFIX} and
>> +@code{--addr2line=CMD} along with @code{/proc/<PID>maps} file copied
>> +from the target device.
>
> @option for command-line options, and @var for metasyntactic variables
> (lowercase inside @var, so @var{prefix} etc.). @file for filenames.
I see.
>
> I expect people will look at the patch in more detail once the copyright
> assignment is done.
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/doc/Copyright/request-assign.future
I've sent an email for that.
>