mtrace(1)

💅 mtrace — the malloc trace log decoder bestie 💅

okay so this is mtrace, a little icon from the General Commands Manual family, and she is here to translate your malloc drama into actual human words. 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

mtrace — interpret the malloc trace log 🧚

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mtrace [option ...] [binary] mtracedata

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, mtrace is a Perl script, periodt. her whole job is to interpret the trace log sitting inside the file mtracedata and give you human readable output of it — no cap, that's literally the assignment. 💅

and where did mtracedata come from? it was produced by mtrace(3), bestie. that's the source. 👑

and if you also hand her a binary? then the output of mtrace also contains the source file name with line number information for problem locations — assuming, and this is the big assuming, that binary was compiled with debugging information. so like… compile with debug info or she's giving you nothing but vibes. 🫶

for more info about the mtrace(3) function and about how to actually use the mtrace script, go read mtrace(3). she said read the docs, fr fr. 📖

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• --help — Print help and exit. the classic. she tells you what she does and then dips immediately. 😭
• --version — Print version information and exit. also dips immediately. main character exits only. ✨

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💀 BUGS 💀

for bug reporting instructions, please see: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html

not me telling you to file the bug instead of complaining in the group chat 🙈 go report it properly bestie, the link is right there.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• memusage(1)
• mtrace(3)

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that's the whole page, you ate it, you're welcome. 🎀 Linux man-pages 6.20 · 2026-02-08 — date stamped, version locked, iconic behavior only. bye bestie 💜🦋🍓