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Another special environment variable that the c library uses to aid in debugging.

$ export MALLOC_CHECK_=n

where
n=0 => ignore corruptions n=1 => print to stderr n=2 => abort immediately

Mainly useful for bugs that corrupt the memory structures.

See also mcheck, LD_DEBUG, CommonProgrammingBugs