Description of problem: While researching memory debugging, a mailing list post in an unrelated project pointed me to Uli's 2006 post about MALLOC_PERTURB_: http://udrepper.livejournal.com/11429.html This LJ post is really the only description of the feature, outside of the source code itself. Therefore, I request that mention of MALLOC_PERTURB_ be added to the glibc manual somewhere. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Current git, as of Nov 13, 2009. How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. attempt to locate MALLOC_PERTURB_ docs in glibc git repo 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: "info libc" provides some mention of MALLOC_PERTURB_ Additional info:
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping