Tool options and environment variables

The librcheck environment variables and their corresponding UI options (if any) are as follows:
Environment variable Where to find in Memory Analysis UI What option to set Additional information
LD_PRELOAD=librcheck.so Advanced Settings Runtime library The library file is librcheck.so.
MALLOC_ACTION=number Memory Errors When an error is detected Set the error-handling action: 0 to ignore, 1 to abort, 2 to exit, 3 to core, 4 to stop.
MALLOC_CKACCESS=0|1 Memory Errors Verify parameters in string and memory functions Turn boundary checking on or off for string and memory functions.
MALLOC_CKALLOC=0|1 Memory Errors Enable check on realloc()/free() argument Enable or disable the checking that the pointers passed to realloc() and free() point to memory that the allocator manages.
MALLOC_CKBOUNDS=0|1 Memory Errors Enable bounds checking (where possible) Turn fill-area boundary checking on or off.
MALLOC_CKCHAIN=0|1 Memory Errors Perform a full heap integrity check on every allocation/deallocation Turn full-chain checking on or off.
MALLOC_CTHREAD=0|1|2 Advanced Settings Create control thread Don't start a control thread (0), or do start the thread and allow the IDE to send commands to the application either through /dev/rcheck (1) or using signals (2).
MALLOC_CTRL_FILE=file N/A N/A Specify a file for the control command (to use with the control signal). The filename can contain ${pid} to add the process ID, with $ quoted if running from the shell.
MALLOC_CTRL_SIG=sigs N/A N/A Override the default signals (e.g., "control:41,leaks:42,start:44,stop:43,marker:45").
MALLOC_DUMP_LEAKS=0|1 Memory Errors Perform leak check when process exits Enable or disable the dumping of leaks on exit.
MALLOC_EVENTBTDEPTH=number Memory Tracing Limit back-trace depth to Set the depth of allocation backtraces to a specific number. The default value is 5.
MALLOC_EVENTFILE=file Advanced Settings Target output file or device Redirect the event output to a file. The filename can contain ${pid} to add the process ID. Use a hyphen (-) to redirect the output to standard output (the default).
MALLOC_FILE=file Advanced Settings Target output file or device Redirect the event and trace output to a file. The filename can contain ${pid} to add the process ID, with $ quoted if running from the shell. Use a hyphen (-) to redirect the output to standard output (the default).
MALLOC_HANDLE_SIGNALS=0|1 N/A N/A Whether to install handlers for the SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGILL, and SIGFPE signals.
MALLOC_HELP=1 N/A N/A Print a list of used environment variables.
MALLOC_SAMPLING=millis N/A N/A Run sampling thread to produce heap statistics every millis milliseconds.
MALLOC_START_TRACING=0|1 Memory Tracing Enable memory allocation/deallocation tracing Whether to automatically start tracing memory when the program starts.
MALLOC_STAT_BINS=bin1,bin2,... Memory Snapshots Bin counters (comma separated) Set custom bins for the allocation ranges that you want to collect statistics for.
MALLOC_TRACEBTDEPTH=number Memory Tracing Limit back-trace depth to Set the allocation backtraces depth to a specific number.
MALLOC_TRACEMAX=number Memory Tracing Maximum allocation to trace Only trace allocations of <= number of bytes.
MALLOC_TRACEMIN=number Memory Tracing Minimum allocation to trace Only trace allocations of >= number of bytes.
MALLOC_TRUNCATE=0|1 N/A N/A Whether to truncate the output files.
MALLOC_USE_CACHE=number N/A N/A Specify the size of the pointer cache; the value must be a power of 2 in the range from 0 through 2048. Set to 0 to disable optimization. The default is 32.
MALLOC_VERBOSE=0|1 Advanced Settings Show debug output on console A value of 1 makes the library send debug information to standard error.