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NAME

       dmalloc  -  program  used to set the environment for debugging using the dmalloc debugging
       library.

SYNOPSIS

       dmalloc [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents the dmalloc command.  It was written for the  Debian  GNU/Linux
       distribution based, almost verbatim, on the original documentation provided by the library
       in GNU Info format; see below.

       The dmalloc program is designed to assist in  the  setting  of  the  environment  variable
       DMALLOC_OPTIONS.   It  is  designed  to  print  the  shell  commands necessary to make the
       appropriate changes to the environment.  Unfortunately, it cannot make the changes on  its
       own  so the output from dmalloc should be sent through the `eval' shell command which will
       do the commands.

       With shells that have aliasing or macro capabilities: csh, bash,  ksh,  tcsh,  zsh,  etc.,
       setting  up  an  alias to dmalloc to do the eval call is recommended.  Csh/tcsh users (for
       example) should put the following in their `.cshrc' file:

       alias dmalloc 'eval `\dmalloc -C *`'

       Bash and Zsh users on the other hand should put the following in their `.zshrc' file:

       function dmalloc { eval `command dmalloc -b $*` }

       This allows the user to execute the dmalloc command as `dmalloc arguments'.

       The most basic usage for the program is `dmalloc [-bC] tag'.
        The `-b' or `-C' (either but not both flags used at a time) are for generating Bourne  or
       C  shell  type  commands  respectively.   dmalloc will try and use the `SHELL' environment
       variable to determine whether bourne or C shell commands should be generated but  you  may
       want to explicitly specify the correct flag.

       The  tag  argument  to  dmalloc should match a line from the user's run-time configuration
       file or should be one of the built-in tags.  If no tag is specified and no  other  option-
       commands  used, dmalloc will display the current settings of the environment variable.  It
       is useful to specify one of the verbose options when doing this.

       To find out the usage  for  the  debug  malloc  program  try  dmalloc  --usage-long.   The
       standardized  usage message that will be displayed is one of the many features of the argv
       library included with this package.  It is available via ftp from `ftp.letters.com' in the
       `/src/argv' directory.  See `argv.info' there for more information.

OPTIONS

       -a     address  Set  the  `addr'  part  of  the  DMALLOC_OPTIONS  variable  to address (or
              alternatively address:number).

       -b     Output Bourne shell type commands.

       -C     Output C shell type commands.

       -c     Clear/unset all of the settings not specified with  other  arguments.   Clear  will
              never unset the `debug' setting.  Use -d 0 or a tag to `none' to achieve this.

       -d     bitmask  Set  the  `debug'  part of the DMALLOC_OPTIONS env variable to the bitmask
              value which should be in hex.  This is overridden (and unnecessary)  if  a  tag  is
              specified.

       -D     List all of the debug-tokens.  Useful for finding a token to be used with the -p or
              -m options.  Use with -v or -V verbose options.

       -e     errno Print the dmalloc error string that corresponds to the error number errno.

       -f     filename Use this configuration file instead of the RC file ~/.dmallocrc.

       -i     number Set the checking interval to number.

       -k     Keep the settings when using a tag.  This overrides -r .

       -l     filename Set the log-file to filename.

       -L     Output the debug-value not in hex but by individual debug-tokens in long form.

       -m     token(s) Remove (minus) the debug capabilities of token(s) from the  current  debug
              setting or from the selected tag (or -d value).  Multiple -m's can be specified.

       -n     Without  changing  the environment, output the commands resulting from the supplied
              options.

       -p     token(s) Add (plus) the debug capabilities of token(s) to the current debug setting
              or to the selected tag (or -d value).  Multiple -p's can be specified.

       -r     Remove  (unset)  all  settings  when  using  a  tag.   This  is useful when you are
              returning to a standard development tag and want the logfile, address, and interval
              settings  to  be cleared automatically.  If you want this behavior by default, this
              can be put into the dmalloc alias.

       -s     number Set  the  `start'  part  of  the  DMALLOC_OPTIONS  env  variable  to  number
              (alternatively `file:line').

       -S     Output the debug-value not in hex but by individual debug-tokens in short form.

       -t     List all of the tags in the rc-file.  Use with -v or -V verbose options.

       -v     Give  verbose  output.   Especially useful when dumping current settings or listing
              all of the tags.

       If no arguments are specified, dmalloc dumps out the current settings that  you  have  for
       the environment variable.  For example:

            Debug-Flags  '0x40005c7' (runtime)
            Address      0x1f008, count = 3
            Interval     100
            Logpath      'malloc'
            Start-File   not-set

       With  a  -v  option  and no arguments, dmalloc dumps out the current settings in a verbose
       manner.  For example:

            Debug-Flags  '0x40005c7' (runtime)
               log-stats, log-non-free, log-blocks, log-unknown,
               log-bad-space, check-fence, catch-null
            Address      0x1f008, count = 10
            Interval     100
            Logpath      'malloc'
            Start-File   not-set

SEE ALSO

       The  documetation  for  the  library  is  in  GNU  Info  format.  Please  check  the  file
       /usr/share/info/dmalloc.info.gz for more details.

FILES

       /usr/share/info/dmalloc.info.gz
              The real documentation for the dmalloc library.

       ~/.dmallocrc
              User's configuration file.

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was  written  by  Luis Francisco González <luisgh@debian.org>, for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).  The  library  was  written  by  Gray
       Watson.  Please see the copyright file in /usr/share/doc/libdmalloc-dev for details.

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