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commit 00bb5504cc62693e05ff4e699f379011c55ecc84
Author: Rich Salz <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Nov 3 13:16:26 2016 -0400
Update CRYPTO_set_mem_debug() doc
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <[email protected]>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1842)
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Summary of changes:
doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod b/doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod
index 50f0975..2104f43 100644
--- a/doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod
@@ -135,8 +135,10 @@ at build-time).
This adds some overhead by keeping a list of all memory allocations, and
removes items from the list when they are free'd.
This is most useful for identifying memory leaks.
-CRYPTO_set_mem_debug() turns this tracking on and off. It is normally
-called at startup, but can be called at any time.
+CRYPTO_set_mem_debug() turns this tracking on and off. In order to have
+any effect, is must be called before any of the allocation functions
+(e.g., CRYPTO_malloc()) are called, and is therefore normally one of the
+first lines of main() in an application.
CRYPTO_mem_ctrl() provides fine-grained control of memory leak tracking.
To enable tracking call CRYPTO_mem_ctrl() with a B<mode> argument of
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