Developing and Porting C and C++ Applications on AIX

4.3. Use of MALLOCDEBUG options

This section explains the use of the MALLOCDEBUG environment variable by providing the following sections:

• Section 4.3.1, “MALLOCDEBUG with the debug memory allocator” on page 182

• Section 4.3.2, “MALLOCDEBUG with memory allocators other than debug” on page 190

4.3.1. MALLOCDEBUG with the debug memory allocator

The debug memory allocator supports the following options specified by the MALLOCDEBUG environment variable:

• “align:N” on page 183

• “validate_ptrs” on page 185

• “postfree_checking” on page 186

• “allow_overreading” on page 188

• “override_signal_handling” on page 188

• “record_allocations” on page 189

• “report_allocations” on page 189

Note

The debug memory allocator does not support the MALLOCDEBUG options explained in ...