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$Id: NEWS,v 1.129 2007/05/14 17:23:42 gray Exp $
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Version 5.5.2 (5/14/2007):
* Removed some left-over references to the dmalloc.info file.
* Fixed some unsigned/signed issues in one of the dmalloc_t tests.
* Fixed problems with configure and SL_LINK_OBJS.
Version 5.5.1 (3/25/2007):
* Fixed some problems with str[n]dup argument checking.
* Fixed bug where LOG_PNT_SEEN_COUNT=0 caused dmalloc_examine segfault.
* Fixed bug with the checking of the MAX_FILE_LENGTH.
* Revamped the tests for user pointers. Added better support for sizes.
* Added dmalloc_verify_pnt_strsize to support strnlen size testing.
* Added missing DMALLOC_FUNC_CHECK routines: atoi, atol, memmove
* Added a number of special checks for DMALLOC_FUNC_CHECK stuff.
* Fixed all of the DMALLOC_FUNC_CHECK arguments.
Version 5.5.0 (2/8/2007):
* Fixed a problem with Cygwin env parsing.
* Improved regression tests on argument checking functions.
* Fixed some problems with function argument checking and length args.
* Added handling of strndup function.
* Added overlapping memory check for memcpy if memmove exists.
* Added __FILE__ and __LINE__ arguments to function checks.
* Added patches to [hopefully] improve the building under Mac OSX.
* Added dmalloc_get_stats function to report on internal heap stats.
* Fixed a problem with double free not reporting ERROR_ALREADY_FREE.
* Added better checking for mmap compatibility during autoconfig.
* Improved the usage output for dmalloc.
* Improved some of the error values to better identify internal errors.
* Fixed when LARGEST_ALLOCATION was 0 it was still being tested.
* Increased the basic block default to 32k.
* Improved test program output;
* Fixed the global Makefile to install libs as 755 not 644.
* Added some fixes for Compaq's C compiler.
* Improved testing of small heap areas.
Version 5.4.2 (10/19/2004):
* Fixed a couple of longer standing stupid alloc/free blank bugs.
Version 5.4.1 (10/12/2004):
* Found and fixed a stupid little testing bug.
Version 5.4.0 (10/12/2004):
* Added return.h support for ARM processors.
* Made allocation of 0 sized chunks the default.
* Fixed some missing ; and a int/unsigned-int bug.
* Added return.h support for AIX 4.3 RS/6000.
* Added backwards compatibility for %d usage in logfile name.
* Removed force-linear token because made invalid with mmap addition.
* Added mmap usage inside of the library. Should it be the default?
* Internal random algorithm now seeded with fixed value.
* Really improved the logging of error information about pointers.
* Added return.h support for ia64 machine type.
* Increased the maximum source file length from 10k to 30k.
* Added compat and arg_checking of atoi, atol, and memmove.
* Added arg checking to internal strdup functions.
Version 5.3.0 (01/28/2004):
* Fixed bad bug where arch_check funcs weren't locking point checks.
* Added dmalloc_verify_pnt function for proper external pointer checks.
* Added dmalloc_memory_allocated function to help memory size checks.
* Added --start-size to dmalloc to start checks after alloc X bytes.
* Added check-shutdown token and support to check pointers on shutdown.
* Added dmalloc_count_changed function.
* Added ability to disable the LARGEST_ALLOCATION setting it to 0.
Version 5.2.4 (11/18/2003):
* Fixed bug with check-fence and check-funcs interaction. Thanks John.
* Added support for rc shell. Thanks Michael.
* Fixed a logfile NULL pointer printf. Thanks John.
* Fleshed out the error code documentation.
* Fixed Makefile.in to properly refer to docs directory. Thanks Mike.
* Improved the docs about alias creation and usage.
* Added testing for destructors in configure.
Version 5.2.3 (09/29/2003):
* Added new GetEnvironmentVariableA Cygwin call. Thanks to Rolf.
* Added quick checks for the constructor attribute.
* Changed configure script to define HAVE_... to 0 or 1. Thanks Brian.
* Removed usage of environ from dmalloc_argv.c. Thanks Brian.
Version 5.2.2 (09/08/2003):
* Added a Cygwin section to the manual.
* Added GETENV_SAFE testing for Cygwin environments. Feedback needed.
* Fixed bug in function args pnt checking. Thanks TJ and Philippe.
* Improved pnt checking code to properly check free space above alloc.
* Fixed possible lock leak in the shutdown code. Thanks TJ.
* Changed the installing of libraries to install-data.
Version 5.2.1 (07/08/2003):
* Fixed problems with macro arguments not in (). Thanks Paul.
* Fixed problem with strdup not returning char *. Thanks Dan, Juhani.
Version 5.2.0 (06/10/2003):
* Renamed the "max memory space wasted" to "max unused memory space".
* Added PDF documentation files to the installation.
* Fixed a problem with the global Makefile and dmalloc_t. Thanks Bert.
* Added new logfile expansion of %u as getuid() output.
* Added new logfile expansion of %h as gethostname() output.
* Added new logfile expansion of %t as time() output.
* Added new logfile expansion of %p as getpid() output.
* Added new logfile expansion of %i as thread-id output.
* Removed the old logfile % processing. %d no longer expands to pid.
* Added LOG_PID to settings.dist to log pid on each line of logfile.
* Added LOG_REOPEN to reopen log if pid changes (fork). Thanks James.
* Renamed LOG_ITERATION_COUNT to LOG_ITERATION in settings.dist.
* Renamed STORE_SEEN_COUNT to LOG_PNT_SEEN_COUNT in settings.dist.
* Renamed STORE_ITERATION_COUNT to LOG_PNT_ITERATION in settings.dist.
* Renamed STORE_TIME to LOG_PNT_TIME in settings.dist.
* Renamed STORE_TIMEVAL to LOG_PNT_TIMEVAL in settings.dist.
* Renamed LOG_THREAD_ID to LOG_PNT_THREAD_ID in settings.dist.
* Improved the log_stats and log_changed output a bit.
Version 5.1.0 (06/08/2003):
* Fixed the FREED_POINTER_DELAY functionality.
* Removed PROTECT_BLOCKS from settings.dist because was unused.
* Added contrib/tsecs perl script which converts epoch secs to ctime.
* Removed the unused check-lists debug token.
* Fixed the realloc-copy and never-reuse functionality.
* Improved the stats output.
* Added many automatic tests to dmalloc_t.
* Expanded the arguments to dmalloc_examine to return more information.
* Found/fixed problem where last-used mark was not set right properly.
* Found/fixed bad problem where leaked memory was not being reported.
Version 5.0.2 (06/04/2003):
* Fixed some problems and improved code in the test utility dmalloc_t.
* Integrated an internal random number generator to stop recursion.
* Improved some of the configure script internals.
* Added support for a.exe and other cc output forms for Windoze.
Version 5.0.1 (05/20/2003):
* Updated configure.ac script.
* Added dmalloc_page_size() function.
* Improved the auto-testing in dmalloc_t.
* Found a [bad] problem with putting pointers back on the free list.
* Added some checking of pointers on the free list.
* Added the per-pointer checking for cleared free memory.
* Compressed the per-pointer admin structure by 8 bytes.
Version 5.0.0 (05/16/2003):
* Added -M --memory-limit argument to dmalloc to limit allocations.
* Deprecated log-blocks and heap-check-map debug tokens.
* Added a currently in use stats to log-stats.
* Removed a number of old error codes.
* Fixed some literal ranlib entries in the Makefile.in.
* Removed the USE_DMALLOC_LEAP functionality to simplify.
* Added a function to re-open the logfile when processing flags.
* Added section to docs about debugging daemon and CGI processes.
* Made some cosmetic improvements to the configure.in script.
* Due to public pressure, I've made free(0L) not an error by default.
* Added separate characters for blanking allocs (0xda) vs frees (0xdf).
* Removed short token support. Was anyone using this?
* Did some more work on testing and chunk.c changes.
* Added better autoconf checking of thread libraries for FreeBSD.
* Added dmalloc_debug_setup function to set dmalloc flags thru a call.
* Significantly changed how the library manages fence protected allocs.
* Renamed _dmalloc_logpath to dmalloc_logpath to match the docs and .h.
* Solved problem with dmalloc_t and no sbrk.
* Added INTERNAL_MEMORY_SPACE setting to the settings.dist file.
* Added the 'How It Works' section to the manual.
* Removed necessity of strcat.
* Removed use of strcpy internally.
* Fixed problem with use of start-count and start-file.
Version 4.8.2 (02/26/2001):
* Installed new configure script to remove C++ requirement.
* Added more information to error messages on freed memory overwrite.
* Added heap checking when we shutdown if check-blank is enabled.
* Added separate ALLOC_BLANK_CHAR and FREE_BLANK_CHAR to settings.dist.
Version 4.8.1 (11/14/2000):
* Added --enable-shlib to configure to enable building of shared libs.
* Added autoconf handling of the shlibdir for installing shared libs.
* Added improvements to the shared library creation in the Makefile.
* Fixed the #ident "..."; semi-colon problem.
Version 4.8.0 (11/10/2000):
* Added OpenBSD port information. Hopefully Free/Net/... BSD as well.
* Renamed malloc.h to malloc_funcs.h to avoid system conflicts.
* Made log-unknown the default and depreciated the token.
* Added log-known token to _only_ report on known (file/line) memory.
* malloc_verify, dmalloc_verify now return [D]MALLOC_VERIFY_[NO]ERROR.
* Just about every dmalloc function now initializes the library.
* dmalloc_debug now takes unsigned-int flags and returns the old flags.
* debug_current now returns an unsigned int flag value.
* Added autoconfig handling of #ident. I hate Unix's lack of standards.
* Fixed a bug in chunk.c.
Version 4.7.1 (07/25/2000):
* Fixed problem with check-blank on but not free-blank or alloc-blank.
Version 4.7.0 (07/24/2000):
* Added support for --disable-cxx and --enable-threads to configure.
* Added autoconf code to see if the return macros work for an system.
* Renamed USE_RET_ADDRESS to USE_RETURN_MACROS in settings.dist/h.
* Added threaded C++ library support to Makefile.
* Fixed problems with -p and -m not setting the debug flags.
* Added 'force-linear' and depreciated the 'allow-nonlinear' token.
Version 4.6.0 (05/17/2000):
* Reworked internal init values for env vars pointed out by Carlton.
* Fixed bug found by Mcvey where the 1st dblock alloc in block missed.
* Moved to 'make cxx' and 'make installcxx' for building C++ library.
* Removed DMALLOC_VERIFY_[NO]ERROR and replaced with DMALLOC_[NO]ERROR.
* dmalloc_examine now returns DMALLOC_[NO]ERROR not [NO]ERROR.
* Added initial mprotect configuration and stub functions.
* Added autoconf building of cxx library per Dimitri's comments.
* Revamped rpm.spec and renamed to dmalloc.rpm per Dimitri's comments.
Version 4.5.2 (04/18/2000):
* Fixed bug in chunk.c pointer checking. Thanks Ezra.
* Cleaned up some of the compat.[ch] headers to better match reality.
* Reorganized dmalloc.texi documentation and moved to using makeinfo.
Version 4.5.1 (03/30/2000):
* Fixed a compilation problem in dmalloc_lp.c.
Version 4.5.0 (03/29/2000):
* Added new dmalloc_mark() and dmalloc_log_changed() functions.
Version 4.4.0 (03/20/2000):
* Removed the stupid old Deansify.pl script.
* Added rpm.spec file to the distribution.
* Added code to fix some recursive problems with open and atexit.
* Basically encorporated Randell's changes [finally]. Thanks dude.
* Removed the stupid chunk.c unions. Why did I ever do that?
* www.dmalloc.com -> dmalloc.com.
* Added better help messages to dmalloc.
* Fixed Makefile.dep creation with _th.o special objects.
* Fixed the outputting of gratuitous colons.
* Added @uref texinfo tags and new texinfo.tex.
Version 4.3.0 (11/08/1999):
* Fixed problems on Linux with the strdup macro.
* Added copyright and url info for ident and what.
* Added support for PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER.
* Added USE_DMALLOC_LEAP define in the settings.dist file.
* Dmalloc now looks in the current directory for .dmallocrc before ~.
* Rewrote a significant piece of the dmalloc utility.
* Increased the filename size from 40 to 100 characters.
Version 4.2.0 (03/11/1999):
* Improved the autoconfig of abort and qsort safety.
* Added memory tracking function to be called on each mem transaction.
* Added DUMP_UNFREED_SUMMARY_ONLY variable to settings.dist.
* Added MEMORY_TABLE_SIZE and MEMORY_TABLE_LOG vars to settings.dist.
* Fixed problem with valloc exposed by moving to random().
* Fixed long standing problem with the NEVER-REUSE token.
* Added memory table code for grouping of allocated and non-freed mem.
* Removed a number of static variables for string buffers.
* Removed PERMISSION file and all references to commercial-ness.
* Moved to internal sprintf code for snprintf, etc..
* Added dmalloc_message to the exported list of functions.
Version 4.1.2 (12/11/1998):
* Fixed really bad bug which basically killed pthread support.
Version 4.1.1 (11/16/1998):
* Fixed signal autoconfiguration.
Version 4.1.0 (11/16/1998):
* Added HTML versions of the manuals to the releases.
* Added FREED_POINTER_DELAY in settings.h. Delays pointer reuse.
* Renamed allow-zero token to be allow-free-null.
* Added LOG_TIME_NUMBER and LOG_CTIME_STRING to the settings.h.
* Disabled the log-thread-id macro. Use LOG_THREAD_ID in settings.h.
* Disabled the log-stamp macro. Use LOG_TIME_NUMBER in settings.h.
* Added -g (--gdb) flag to dmalloc utility along with gdb script.
* Added missing delete[] function to the C++ code.
* Moved some settings from chunk_loc.h into settings.dist.
* Improved the handling of free(NULL) and malloc(0) settings.
* Added initial memalign support with a first-time error message.
* Renamed print-error token to print-messages.
* Increased the default max memory size from 16mb to 64mb.
Version 4.0.3 (10/15/1998):
* Found and fixed a bug when reallocing a previous valloced section.
Version 4.0.2 (10/15/1998):
* Fixed a problem in return.h and DMALLOC_UNKNOWN_FILE.
Version 4.0.1 (10/08/1998):
* Added startup messages acknowledging the thread status.
* Fixed problem with thread compilation and chunk.c.
* Fixed possible race condition with synchronizing with external sbrks.
* Migrated in new argv code.
Version 4.0.0 (10/04/1998):
* Made a small change to the solaris return.h code.
* Added recalloc support into the library.
* Cleaned up the calloc special handling and accounting.
* Added valloc support to the library for OSF thread libraries.
* Improved the pthread autoconfiguration and the code.
* Got rid of the _dmalloc_file and _dmalloc_line crap.
* Added FTX return.h information.
* Added direct strdup support to the library.
Version 3.3.1 (02/10/1998):
* Shifted some flags to ints instead of longs.
* Improved error string handling.
* Removed allocation macros from the docs and the header.
* Added realloc(pnt, 0) works like free(pnt).
* Reworked log_error_info routine's dumping of the upper fence post.
Version 3.3.0 (12/08/1997):
* Added THREAD_LOCK_INIT_VAL autoconfigure.
* Performed some long overdue major code cleaning.
* Renamed argv.[ch] to dmalloc_argv.[ch] to not clash with argv files.
* Added return address handling for SGI.
* Added better C++ overload functions.
* Added test for DMALLOC_SIZE unsigned-ness.
* Added a FINI_DMALLOC setting to settings.dist for OSF __fini_ stuff.
* Added pthread lock_on -o environmental settings.
Version 3.2.1 (03/21/1997):
* Added to dmalloc the ability to recognize its internal tags.
* Added better documentation of auto-dmalloc_shutdown.
* Fixed a number of signed/unsigned problems.
* Removed autoconf rule in Makefile.all.
* Cleaned up pthreads locking delay code.
Version 3.2.0 (01/17/1997):
* Added catch-signals debug token.
* Improved configure script to use cache and new autoconf macros.
* Updated the GNU support scripts and configure.
* Fixed the locking for pthread programs. Dumb errors.
* Ran new fillproto on h-files. IMPORT -> extern.
Version 3.1.3 (12/28/1995):
* Removed silent dumps of test program.
* Removed some unresolved references in argv.c: strcasecmp, strdup.
* Fixed some porting problems to Unixware. Unsigned chars!!
Version 3.1.2 (10/10/1995):
* Changes to basic-block handling in chunk. Fixed non-linear code.
* Added inital thread locking for debugging threaded programs.
* Added settings.dist file which is copied to settings.h during config.
* New attempts to auto-configure DMALLOC_SIZE for size_t.
* Added dmalloc_aborting flag in case kill or abort recurses.
* Added new[] C++ function.
Version 3.1.1 (08/18/1995):
* Added better non-linear processing.
* Made non-linear now default behaviour with internal dmalloc tags.
* Fixed up dmalloc_t to propogate errors better.
Version 3.1.0 (07/14/1995):
* pulled manual settings out of conf.h to settings.h.
* Added error-dump token for dumping-core and continuing on errors.
Version 3.0.7 (05/31/1995):
* New release to fix some version problems.
Version 3.0.6 (05/12/1995):
* Added Web pointers to online documentation.
* Added abort() auto-configuration for KILL_PROCESS.
* Fixed problem with NEVER_REUSE and realloc same block-size.
* Logged starting/ending time in logfile.
* Added thread-id tracking with conf.h option.
* Added pointer-count tracking with conf.h option.
* Added iteration-count tracking with conf.h option.
* Added global/relative time tracking with conf.h option.
* Better tag output from dmalloc -t.
* New version of argv files.
* Fixed problem with dmalloc -c and start-count.
* Added some messages about upcoming errors in dmalloc_t.
* Added allow-zero token for not minding malloc(0) and free(0L).
* Made all chunk.c global counters longs.
Version 3.0.5 (01/02/1995):
* Fixed some old references to malloc in docs.
Version 3.0.4 (12/15/1994):
* Definitions for DMALLOC_PNT and DMALLOC_FREE_RET.
* Removed all STRDUP and BDUP macros. Was anyone using them?
* Added a "dying" message when _malloc_die is called.
* Reworked the manual a ton. Added Quick-Start+Installation sections.
Version 3.0.3 (11/03/1994):
* Added dmalloc.cc C++ file to distribution.
* Default is now to build/install a libdmalloclp.a library.
* Removed the log-error tag. If logfile set then errors are logged.
* Fixed problem with new args clearing all old ones.
* Added dmalloc.h.2 creation to config.status file.
* Added a startup message with the debug flags used to logfile.
* Fixed errors with FUNC_CHECK code.
* Added default tags: default,low,medium,high,all to dmalloc.
* Renamed 'check-free' token to 'check-blank'.
* Made many changes to make it easier to get running with dmalloc.
* Added long(-L)/short(-S) options to output debug-tokens in env.
* Changed some dmalloc options:
* -T (list-tokens) -> -D (debug-tokens)
* -L (list-tags) -> -t (list-tags)
* Added better error logging in chunk.
* Added DG/UX code to return.h and atexit.c to contrib.
Version 3.0.2 (09/26/1994):
* Fixed strtok error in dmallocrc file processing.
* Fixed problems with env code when sprintf doesn't returns int.
* Library now dumps the proper fence-bottom bytes on 1st pointer error.
* Fixed casting problems on OSF.
Version 3.0.1 (09/20/1994):
* Combined all env variables into DMALLOC_OPTIONS.
* Added -n flag to dmalloc program for printing/not-doing actions.
* Fixed zsh and [t]csh alias messages in documentation.
# Added mkinstalldirs and install.sh to distribution.
* Renamed _dmalloc_error to dmalloc_error.
* Removed time() and getpid() from compat functions.
* Changed DMALLOC_DEBUG_DISABLE flag to DMALLOC_DISABLE.
* Fixed some include file auto-include messages.
Version 3.0.0 (09/08/1994):
* Fixed a problem with some list checking.
* Fixed possible recursion problem.
* Tons of name changes going from malloc_dbg -> dmalloc.
Version 2.2.1 (08/27/1994):
* Small fix to malloc_dbg.3 to remove IMPORT's.
Version 2.2.0 (08/08/1994):
* Fixed xmalloc,xrealloc,etc. override functions.
* Added xstrdup to the x override function list.
* Added ability to combine adjacent free blocks into one.
* 0 or negative MALLOC_INTERVAL values act as if no interval value.
* Made a 'malloc_dbg -i 0' undefine MALLOC_INTERVAL.
* Fixed calloc return-address problem.
* Added KILL_PROCESS macro to configuration scripts.
* Marty Leisner compiles library on MS-DOG!
* Fixed some problems with malloc_errno set after call to error.
Version 2.1.0 (05/11/1994):
* Fixed problem with never-reuse going on/off and check-lists.
* Added -r (random-debug) option to malloc_t.
* Fixed nasty bug in realloc with alloc-blank + no realloc-copy token.
* Fixed problem with ANSI-C configure on AIX systems.
* Fixed some race conditions with sbrk failure.
* Added -p max-pointers argument to malloc_t.
* Added 'log-nonfree-space' token for logging unfreed memory space.
* Added iteration count label to all logfile output. See conf.h.
* Added xmalloc,xrealloc,etc. override functions.
* Added better mechanisms for const definition.
* Lots of install, notes, misc. changes.
* Renamed token 'log-perror' and 'print-perror' to '...-error'.
Version 2.0.1 (02/27/1994):
* Cleaned up a number of configure/compat functions.
* Fixed tons of __STDC__ defines. Finally I hope.
* Added more commands to malloc_t to log information, etc.
Version 2.0.0 (02/18/1994):
* Lots of changes to add argv files in place of argv subdir.
* Added initial support for external block locating.
* Added 'allow-nonlinear' token to remove special checks.
* Renamed dbg_tokens.h -> debug_tok.h and dbg_values.h -> debug_val.h
* Added -V option to malloc_dbg and desc field for debug-token list.
* Added a debugging section to the manual.
* Added light and heavy makefile targets for automatic testing.
* Much improved heap code with per-block allocations (not base 2).
* Better free list management with block splitting.
Version 1.3.6 (11/22/1993):
* Fixed some compilation errors with non-STDC systems.
Version 1.3.5 (11/22/1993):
* More automatic and comprehensive malloc_t testing facilities.
* Added -T (list-tokens) to malloc_dbg: for listing of debug tokens.
* Added 'never-reuse' token to never reuse free'd memory.
* Added on_exit and atexit support to auto-call malloc_shutdown.
* Added hooks to all malloc utility functions to malloc_lp.o.
* Removed debug token log-ra since log-unknown should be enough.
* malloc_heap_map() -> malloc_log_heap_map() for consistency.
* Added malloc_log_unfreed() to dump non-free memory to logfile.
* Added -m (minus) option to malloc_dbg to allow removing of tokens.
* Added -p flag to malloc_dbg to allow adding of tokens to debug value.
* Added DEBUG_LOG_STAMP to add timestamps to log entries.
* Added malloc_log_stats() to dump stats to a file.
* Re-added cfree() call. No reason not to have it.
Version 1.3.4 (09/26/1993):
* Fixed compat function problems, added checks for -std1 cc flags.
* Fixed debug messages to reflect reality.
* Added malloc_debug_current and changed #if __STDC__ -> #ifdef
* Removed log-bad-pnt. What an unnecessary token!
Version 1.3.3 (09/20/1993):
* Fixed configuration problems with memcpy/bcopy and memcmp/bcmp.
* Added free's file/line to log_bad_pnt messages.
* Renamed all error codes to ERROR_*.
Version 1.3.2 (08/26/1993):
* Removed MALLOC_TRACE and -t, replaced with MALLOC_ADDRESS:0.
* Fixed some const problems.
* Added ability of MALLOC_LOGFILE.%d for getpid
Version 1.3.1 (08/24/1993):
* Added 'log-ra' token to log return-address info (NOTE: later removed)
* Added the beginnings of return-address handling
* Added -L or --list to malloc_dbg to list all the rc-file tags.
Version 1.3.0 (08/17/1993):
* Added MALLOC_TRACE variable and malloc_dbg -t (NOTE: later removed)
* Added some C++ from Peter Miller to the manual.
* Removed LGPL and replaced it with fully free software notices.
* _malloc_perror renamed to _malloc_error
* Made malloc_address exported so it can be setable by debugger.
* Added auto-sensing of shell by malloc_dbg and -C option.
* Removed dblock checking tokens 'check-dblock-fence' + 'check-dblock'.
Version 1.2.6 (07/13/1993):
* Added 'catch-null' token for quitting as soon as we get sbrk failure.
Version 1.2.5 (06/15/1993):
* Added -r and -k options for auto-unsetting or keeping of variables.
* Added 'log-bad-space' token and added expand_buf into chunk.c.
* Create log_bad_pnt in chunk.
Version 1.2.4 (05/13/1993):
* Added -v option to malloc_dbg to provide verbose output.
Version 1.2.3 (04/19/1993):
* Renamed malloc.h to malloc_dbg.h and libmalloc.a to libmalloc_dbg.a.
Version 1.2.2 (04/14/1993):
* Added some more point checking tests to malloc_str.
Version 1.2.1 (04/09/1993):
* Changed to void * internally, put STDC defines in malloc.h for ANSI.
* Made a number of changes per suggestions from the net.
Version 1.2.0 (04/06/1993):
* Uploaded to comp.sources.unix
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