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authorJoe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com>2009-10-18 11:21:38 (GMT)
committerJoe Mistachkin <joe@mistachkin.com>2009-10-18 11:21:38 (GMT)
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Fix for [Bug 988703, 1565466]
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/memory.n15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/memory.n b/doc/memory.n
index 7e49882..ed8a5fc 100644
--- a/doc/memory.n
+++ b/doc/memory.n
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
'\" Copyright (c) 2000 by Scriptics Corporation.
'\" All rights reserved.
'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: memory.n,v 1.12 2008/01/18 15:51:08 dkf Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: memory.n,v 1.12.2.1 2009/10/18 11:21:38 mistachkin Exp $
'\"
.so man.macros
.TH memory n 8.1 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
@@ -41,10 +41,17 @@ number of calls to \fBckalloc\fR not met by a corresponding call
to \fBckfree\fR), the current bytes allocated, and the maximum number
of packets and bytes allocated.
.TP
-\fB memory init \fR[\fBon\fR|\fBoff\fR]
+\fBmemory init \fR[\fBon\fR|\fBoff\fR]
.
Turn on or off the pre-initialization of all allocated memory
-with bogus bytes. Useful for detecting the use of uninitialized values.
+with bogus bytes. Useful for detecting the use of uninitialized
+values.
+.TP
+\fBmemory objs \fIfile\fR
+.
+Causes a list of all allocated Tcl_Obj values to be written to the specified
+\fIfile\fR immediately, together with where they were allocated. Useful for
+checking for leaks of values.
.TP
\fBmemory onexit\fR \fIfile\fR
.
@@ -69,9 +76,11 @@ to \fBckalloc\fR causes a line of trace information to be written to
address returned, the amount of memory allocated, and the C filename
and line number of the code performing the allocation. For example:
.RS
+.PP
.CS
ckalloc 40e478 98 tclProc.c 1406
.CE
+.PP
Calls to \fBckfree\fR are traced in the same manner.
.RE
.TP