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@@ -150,9 +150,10 @@ or
are almost always related to heap corruption, such as overflowing
an allocated chunk or freeing the same pointer twice.
.PP
-Recent versions of Linux libc (later than 5.4.23) and GNU libc (2.x)
-include a malloc implementation which is tunable via environment
-variables.
+Recent versions of Linux libc (later than 5.4.23) and glibc (2.x)
+include a
+.BR malloc ()
+implementation which is tunable via environment variables.
When
.BR MALLOC_CHECK_
is set, a special (less efficient) implementation is used which