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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2021-07-07 07:02:13 +0530
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glibc.malloc.check: Fix nit in documentation
The tunable will not work with *any* non-zero tunable value since its
list of allowed values is 0-3.  Fix the documentation to reflect that.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ following tunables in the @code{malloc} namespace:
 This tunable supersedes the @env{MALLOC_CHECK_} environment variable and is
 identical in features.
 
-Setting this tunable to a non-zero value enables a special (less
+Setting this tunable to a non-zero value less than 4 enables a special (less
 efficient) memory allocator for the @code{malloc} family of functions that is
 designed to be tolerant against simple errors such as double calls of
 free with the same argument, or overruns of a single byte (off-by-one