mtrace(1)

mtrace1

Interpret the malloc trace log

Usage

mtrace [option ...] [binary] mtracedata

Overview

mtrace is a Perl script used to interpret and provide human readable output of the trace log contained in the file mtracedata, whose contents were produced by mtrace(3). If binary is provided, the output of mtrace also contains the source file name with line number information for problem locations (assuming that binary was compiled with debugging information).

For more information about the mtrace(3) function and mtrace script usage, see mtrace(3).

Options

--help

Print help and exit.

--version

Print version information and exit.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 11 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7
  6. 8
  7. 9
  8. 10
  9. 11
  10. 12
  11. 13
  12. Arch

--help since Debian 8 (Jessie); --version since Debian 8 (Jessie).

Bugs

For bug reporting instructions, please see: ⟨http:\://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html⟩.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.