summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/INSTALL
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorSteve Hay <SteveHay@planit.com>2003-04-16 12:12:22 +0100
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2003-04-20 18:55:40 +0000
commit06c896bb0249a54c986239dbc45815c21fdb1da1 (patch)
tree15af75fe86db25f0d248f08cab4aa73e0f42c1ad /INSTALL
parent09b58c7bbebaf0de2d064711b4d278b13c4fa811 (diff)
downloadperl-06c896bb0249a54c986239dbc45815c21fdb1da1.tar.gz
Document PERL_DEBUGGING_MSTATS in INSTALL and in the Win32 Makefile.
Subject: [DOC PATCH 5.8.0] Re: Problem with Devel::Peek on Perl 5.8.0 Message-ID: <3E9D2C86.8040104@uk.radan.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19280
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
-rw-r--r--INSTALL10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bebc24f86d..76eeb5f7b2 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -990,6 +990,16 @@ from the linker for malloc et al. In such cases, the system probably
does not allow its malloc functions to be fully replaced with custom
versions.
+=item -DPERL_DEBUGGING_MSTATS
+
+This flag enables debugging mstats, which is required to use the
+Devel::Peek::mstat() function. You cannot enable this unless you are
+using Perl's malloc, so a typical Configure command would be
+
+ sh Configure -DPERL_DEBUGGING_MSTATS -Dusemymalloc='y'
+
+to enable this option.
+
=back
=head2 Building a debugging perl