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Re: [PATCH] Document M_PERTURB


On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 01:01:11PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I would s/a value/values/ since there is one value for alloc and one value
> for free, both based on the perturb byte.  I think it should also say
> "... depending on the low-order byte of this value," so nobody can think
> that passing in more than 8 bits has any effect.

It actually has.  MALLOC_PERTURB_=0 doesn't do anything, while
MALLOC_PERTURB_=256 does.

	Jakub


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