From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] User manual documentation for tunables
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <963f665f-2263-e265-ac67-cfe6b19accb8@sourceware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610241719410.30661@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Monday 24 October 2016 10:51 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>
>> +the @code{GLIBC_TUNABLES} environment variable by setting it to a string
>
> @env.
>
>> +of colon-separated @code{name=value} pairs. For example, the following
>
> @var{name}=@var{value}.
>
>> +It is possible to implement multiple 'frontends' for the tunables allowing
>
> Use ` as opening quote in Texinfo.
>
>> +@itemize @bullet
>> +@item @var{0} Disable all error reporting. The alternate allocator is selected
>> +and heap corruption detection is in place, but any such errors detected are
>> +ignored. This is currently a supported use, but is not recommended.
>> +@item @var{1} Report errors. The alternate allocator is selected and heap
>> +corruption, if detected, is reported as diagnostic messages to @var{stderr} and
>> +the program continues execution.
>> +@item @var{2} Abort on errors. The alternate allocator is selected and if heap
>> +corruption is detected, the program is ended immediately by calling
>> +@code{abort}.
>> +@item @var{3} Fully enabled. The alternate allocator is selected and is fully
>> +functional. That is, if heap corruption is detected, a verbose diagnostic
>> +message is printed to @var{stderr} and the program is ended by calling
>> +@code{abort}.
>> +@end itemize
>
> @var is for metasyntactic variables. It is not for names of literal C
> language entities such as stderr (use @code) or for integers such as 0, 1,
> 2, 3.
>
>> +diverges from normal program behavior by writing to @var{stderr}, which could
>
> Likewise.
>
Thanks, fixed all this and more in my local copy.
Siddhesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-26 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-24 14:43 [PATCH v5 0/6] glibc tunables Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-24 14:43 ` [PATCH 1/6] Static inline functions for mallopt helpers Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-26 17:51 ` DJ Delorie
2016-10-27 3:12 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-24 14:43 ` [PATCH 3/6] Add framework for tunables Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-24 14:43 ` [PATCH 2/6] New internal function __access_noerrno Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-11-08 17:10 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-08 19:00 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-11-10 5:47 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-11-10 12:15 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-10 13:05 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-11-10 16:07 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-10-24 14:43 ` [PATCH 5/6] Enhance --enable-tunables to select tunables frontend at build time Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-24 14:43 ` [PATCH 6/6] User manual documentation for tunables Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-24 17:22 ` Joseph Myers
2016-10-26 9:53 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar [this message]
2016-10-24 14:43 ` [PATCH 4/6] Initialize tunable list with the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-24 15:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-10-26 9:48 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-11-03 10:26 ` [PING][PATCH v5 0/6] glibc tunables Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-11-08 5:37 ` [PING 2][PATCH " Siddhesh Poyarekar
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