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authorJason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>2016-06-01 13:14:18 -0700
committerJason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>2016-06-05 20:42:24 -0700
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Better document --enable-ivsalloc.
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@@ -124,9 +124,10 @@ any of the following arguments (not a definitive list) to 'configure':
option documentation for usage details.
--enable-ivsalloc
- Enable validation code, which verifies that pointers reside within
- jemalloc-owned chunks before dereferencing them. This incurs a minor
- performance hit.
+ Enable validation code for malloc_usable_size() and sallocx(), which
+ verifies that pointers reside within jemalloc-owned extents before
+ dereferencing metadata. This incurs a minor performance hit, and causes
+ the functions to return 0 for failed lookups.
--enable-prof
Enable heap profiling and leak detection functionality. See the "opt.prof"