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authorDan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>2014-02-06 23:55:25 +0100
committerDan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>2014-02-06 23:56:47 +0100
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tests: Document use of the MEMDEBUG_LOG_SYNC macro
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@@ -144,7 +144,9 @@ The cURL Test Suite
runtests.pl's -t option will enable torture testing mode, which runs each
test many times and makes each different memory allocation fail on each
successive run. This tests the out of memory error handling code to ensure
- that memory leaks do not occur even in those situations.
+ that memory leaks do not occur even in those situations. It can help to
+ compile curl with CPPFLAGS=-DMEMDEBUG_LOG_SYNC when using this option, to
+ ensure that the memory log file is properly written even if curl crashes.
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