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-.TH MTRACE 3 2012-03-22 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH MTRACE 3 2012-04-18 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
mtrace, muntrace \- malloc tracing
.SH SYNOPSIS
does nothing.
When
-.BR mtrace (3)
+.BR mtrace ()
is called, it checks the value of the environment variable
.BR MALLOC_TRACE ,
which should contain the pathname of a file in which
is ignored, and
.BR mtrace ()
has no effect.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH CONFORMING TO
These functions are GNU extensions.
.SH NOTES
In normal usage,
The line-number information produced by
.BR mtrace (1)
is not always precise:
-the line number references may refer to the previous or following (non-blank)
+the line number references may refer to the previous or following (nonblank)
line of the source code.
.SH EXAMPLE
The shell session below demonstrates the use of the
.BR calloc (3)
(which in turn calls
.BR malloc (3)).
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
.BR mtrace (1),
.BR malloc (3),
-.BR malloc_hook (3)
+.BR malloc_hook (3),
+.BR mcheck (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.