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| author | Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> | 2016-11-03 13:16:26 -0400 |
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| committer | Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> | 2016-11-03 15:25:00 -0400 |
| commit | 00bb5504cc62693e05ff4e699f379011c55ecc84 (patch) | |
| tree | bbe66276c2e45cfef29355bcec0ba2f4d392df8c /doc | |
| parent | 6d4bc8a3d2c2f7701588bbfdea80a1f7a3973f26 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-00bb5504cc62693e05ff4e699f379011c55ecc84.tar.gz | |
Update CRYPTO_set_mem_debug() doc
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1842)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod b/doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod index 50f09751cf..2104f43108 100644 --- a/doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod +++ b/doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod @@ -135,8 +135,10 @@ at build-time). This adds some overhead by keeping a list of all memory allocations, and removes items from the list when they are free'd. This is most useful for identifying memory leaks. -CRYPTO_set_mem_debug() turns this tracking on and off. It is normally -called at startup, but can be called at any time. +CRYPTO_set_mem_debug() turns this tracking on and off. In order to have +any effect, is must be called before any of the allocation functions +(e.g., CRYPTO_malloc()) are called, and is therefore normally one of the +first lines of main() in an application. CRYPTO_mem_ctrl() provides fine-grained control of memory leak tracking. To enable tracking call CRYPTO_mem_ctrl() with a B<mode> argument of |