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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-05-12 00:30:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-05-12 00:30:29 +0000 |
| commit | fb186734289145885761fc285a1f97e5b294609f (patch) | |
| tree | 3905a02a55673ae48bc8dc7f8cec551fe26fd667 /man3/malloc_hook.3 | |
| parent | 63f6a20a1acb380057d1940f286bde6d6758e51d (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-fb186734289145885761fc285a1f97e5b294609f.tar.gz | |
Adding section numbers to xrefs toother pages
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diff --git a/man3/malloc_hook.3 b/man3/malloc_hook.3 index f53b5d9863..8ce32255f4 100644 --- a/man3/malloc_hook.3 +++ b/man3/malloc_hook.3 @@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ __after_morecore_hook \- malloc debugging variables .BI "void (*__after_morecore_hook)(void);" .SH DESCRIPTION The GNU C library lets you modify the behavior of -.BR malloc (), -.BR realloc (), +.BR malloc (3), +.BR realloc (3), and -.BR free () +.BR free (3) by specifying appropriate hook functions. You can use these hooks to help you debug programs that use dynamic memory allocation, @@ -60,20 +60,20 @@ The four functions pointed to by .BR __memalign_hook , .BR __free_hook have a prototype like the functions -.BR malloc (), -.BR realloc (), -.BR memalign (), -.BR free (), +.BR malloc (3), +.BR realloc (3), +.BR memalign (3), +.BR free (3), respectively, except that they have a final argument .I caller that gives the address of the caller of -.BR malloc (), +.BR malloc (3), etc. .LP The variable .B __after_morecore_hook points at a function that is called each time after -.BR sbrk () +.BR sbrk (2) was asked for more memory. .SH "EXAMPLE" Here is a short example of how to use these variables. |