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| author | Evan Huus <eapache@gmail.com> | 2013-03-11 19:17:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Evan Huus <eapache@gmail.com> | 2013-03-11 19:17:26 +0000 |
| commit | 8de4b82fcd1fe896a1ac092d794d912af115e64a (patch) | |
| tree | 67bdcbebcbf4d12bb2106eab5cc943da80ea444f /doc/wireshark.pod.template | |
| parent | a7cef5b7c84148ac9affd2ce66cded2675f59a20 (diff) | |
| download | wireshark-8de4b82fcd1fe896a1ac092d794d912af115e64a.tar.gz | |
Document the wmem override environment variable in the man pages, and improve
README.wmem in a couple of places.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=48251
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diff --git a/doc/wireshark.pod.template b/doc/wireshark.pod.template index c356e2e55b..9f1e72aa02 100644 --- a/doc/wireshark.pod.template +++ b/doc/wireshark.pod.template @@ -2735,6 +2735,14 @@ per-file memory is initialized to 0xBADDCAFE when the memory is allocated and is reset to 0xDEADBEEF when the memory is freed. This functionality is useful mainly to developers looking for bugs in the way memory is handled. +=item WIRESHARK_DEBUG_WMEM_OVERRIDE + +Setting this environment variable forces the wmem framework to use the +specified allocator backend for *all* allocations, regardless of which +backend is normally specified by the code. This is mainly useful to developers +when testing or debugging. See I<README.wmem> in the source distribution for +details. + =item WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY This environment variable causes the plugins and other data files to be loaded |