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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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