mallocng.3x (2012 03)

mallocng(3X)

Itanium(R)-based Systems Only

mallocng(3X)

_MALLOCNG_GLOBAL_OPTS

In certain types of multi-threaded applications, wherein one thread allocates memory, passes the pointer

to another thread to free the memory and the allocating thread never calls any of the

malloc() family

of APIs again, the

mallocng allocator does not mark the memory to be freed. In order to make the

mallocng allocator mark the memory to be freed in such conditions, set the environment variable

_MALLOCNG_GLOBAL_OPTS

to 1, as follows:

$ export _MALLOCNG_GLOBAL_OPTS=1

By default, the environment variable is set to 0.