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For review: mtrace(1) man page


mtrace(1) command is not documented. All informations come from the script.

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Thank you
Jan

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.TH MTRACE 1 2013-04-10 "GNU glibc 2.18" "Memory diagnostic tools"
.SH NAME
mtrace \- interpret the malloc trace log
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR mtrace " [\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIBINARY\fR] \fIMTRACEDATA\fR"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mtrace
is a Perl script used to interpret and provide human readable output
of the trace log created by
.BR mtrace (3)
function stored in the
.B MTRACEDATA
file.
If
.B BINARY
is provided, output of
.B mtrace
also contains source file name with line number information
of problem location
(assuming that
.B BINARY
was compiled with debugging information).

For more information about
.BR mtrace (3)
function and
.B mtrace
script usage, refer to the
.BR mtrace (3)
manual page.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \fB\-\-help
Print help and exit.
.TP
.BI \fB\-\-version
Print version information and exit.
.SH BUGS
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html>.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR mtrace (3)


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