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 <H1 class="no-header">curs_trace 3x</H1>
 <PRE>
-<STRONG><A HREF="curs_trace.3x.html">curs_trace(3x)</A></STRONG>                                           <STRONG><A HREF="curs_trace.3x.html">curs_trace(3x)</A></STRONG>
+<STRONG><A HREF="curs_trace.3x.html">curs_trace(3x)</A></STRONG>                                                  <STRONG><A HREF="curs_trace.3x.html">curs_trace(3x)</A></STRONG>
 
 
 
 
 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
 
 
 
 
 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
-       <STRONG>_tracef</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracedump</STRONG>, <STRONG>_traceattr</STRONG>, <STRONG>_traceattr2</STRONG>,
-       <STRONG>_nc_tracebits</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracecchar_t</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracecchar_t2</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracechar</STRONG>,
-       <STRONG>_tracechtype</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracechtype2</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracemouse</STRONG>, <STRONG>trace</STRONG> - <STRONG>curses</STRONG>
-       debugging routines
+       <STRONG>trace</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracef</STRONG>, <STRONG>_traceattr</STRONG>, <STRONG>_traceattr2</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracecchar_t</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracecchar_t2</STRONG>,
+       <STRONG>_tracechar</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracechtype</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracechtype2</STRONG>, <STRONG>_nc_tracebits</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracedump</STRONG>,
+       <STRONG>_tracemouse</STRONG> - <STRONG>curses</STRONG> debugging routines
 
 
 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
        <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
 
 
 
 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
        <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
 
+       <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>trace(const</STRONG> <STRONG>unsigned</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>param</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
+
        <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>_tracef(const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>format</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>_tracef(const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>format</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>_tracedump(const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>label</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
+
        <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_traceattr(attr_t</STRONG> <EM>attr</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_traceattr2(int</STRONG> <EM>buffer</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_traceattr(attr_t</STRONG> <EM>attr</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_traceattr2(int</STRONG> <EM>buffer</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_nc_tracebits(void);</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG> <STRONG>_tracecchar_t(const</STRONG> <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>string</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG> <STRONG>_tracecchar_t2(int</STRONG> <EM>buffer</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>string</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
+       <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracecchar_t(const</STRONG> <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>string</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
+       <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracecchar_t2(int</STRONG> <EM>buffer</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>string</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracechar(int</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracechtype(chtype</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracechtype2(int</STRONG> <EM>buffer</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracechar(int</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracechtype(chtype</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracechtype2(int</STRONG> <EM>buffer</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
+
+       <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>_tracedump(const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>label</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
+       <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_nc_tracebits(void);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracemouse(const</STRONG> <STRONG>MEVENT</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>event</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracemouse(const</STRONG> <STRONG>MEVENT</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>event</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>trace(const</STRONG> <STRONG>unsigned</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>param</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
 
 
 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
 
 
 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
-       The <STRONG>trace</STRONG> routines are used for debugging the ncurses  li-
-       braries, as well as applications which use the ncurses li-
-       braries.  These functions are normally available only with
-       the  debugging  library  e.g.,  <EM>libncurses</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>g.a</EM>, but may be
-       compiled into  any  model  (shared,  static,  profile)  by
-       defining  the  symbol <STRONG>TRACE</STRONG>.  Additionally, some functions
-       are only available with the  wide-character  configuration
-       of the libraries.
+       The  <STRONG>trace</STRONG>  routines  are  used for debugging the ncurses libraries, as
+       well as applications which use the ncurses libraries.  These  functions
+       are  normally available only with the debugging library e.g., <EM>libncurs-</EM>
+       <EM>es</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>g.a</EM>, but may be compiled into any model (shared, static, profile) by
+       defining  the  symbol  <STRONG>TRACE</STRONG>.   Additionally,  some  functions are only
+       available with the wide-character configuration of the libraries.
 
 
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Functions">Functions</a></H3><PRE>
        The principal parts of this interface are
 
        The principal parts of this interface are
 
-       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   <STRONG>trace</STRONG>,  which  selectively  enables  different tracing
-           features, and
+       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   <STRONG>trace</STRONG>, which selectively enables different tracing features, and
+
+       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   <STRONG>_tracef</STRONG>, which writes formatted data to the <EM>trace</EM> file.
+
+       Calling <STRONG>trace</STRONG> with a nonzero parameter creates the file  <STRONG>trace</STRONG>  in  the
+       current  directory  for output.  If the file already exists, no tracing
+       is done.
 
 
-       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   <STRONG>_tracef</STRONG>, which writes  formatted  data  to  the  <EM>trace</EM>
-           file.
+       The other functions either return a pointer to a string-area (allocated
+       by the corresponding function), or return no value (such as <STRONG>_tracedump</STRONG>,
+       which implements the screen dump for <STRONG>TRACE_UPDATE</STRONG>).  The caller  should
+       not  free  these  strings, since the allocation is reused on successive
+       calls.  To work around the problem of a single  string-area  per  func-
+       tion,  some use a buffer-number parameter, telling the library to allo-
+       cate additional string-areas.
 
 
-       Calling  <STRONG>trace</STRONG>  with  a  nonzero  parameter opens the file
-       <STRONG>trace</STRONG> in the current directory for output.  The  parameter
-       is formed by OR'ing values from the list of <STRONG>TRACE_</STRONG><EM>xxx</EM> def-
-       initions in <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>.  These include:
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Trace-Parameter">Trace Parameter</a></H3><PRE>
+       The trace parameter is  formed  by  OR'ing  values  from  the  list  of
+       <STRONG>TRACE_</STRONG><EM>xxx</EM> definitions in <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>.  These include:
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_DISABLE</STRONG>
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_DISABLE</STRONG>
-            turn off tracing.
+            turn off tracing by passing a zero parameter.
+
+            The  library flushes the output file, but retains an open file-de-
+            scriptor to the trace file so that it can resume tracing later  if
+            a nonzero parameter is passed to the <STRONG>trace</STRONG> function.
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_TIMES</STRONG>
             trace user and system times of updates.
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_TPUTS</STRONG>
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_TIMES</STRONG>
             trace user and system times of updates.
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_TPUTS</STRONG>
-            trace tputs calls.
+            trace <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">tputs(3x)</A></STRONG> calls.
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_UPDATE</STRONG>
             trace update actions, old &amp; new screens.
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_UPDATE</STRONG>
             trace update actions, old &amp; new screens.
@@ -111,13 +127,12 @@
             trace all character outputs.
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_ORDINARY</STRONG>
             trace all character outputs.
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_ORDINARY</STRONG>
-            trace all update actions.  The  old  and  new  screen
-            contents  are  written to the trace file for each re-
-            fresh.
+            trace  all  update  actions.   The old and new screen contents are
+            written to the trace file for each refresh.
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_CALLS</STRONG>
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_CALLS</STRONG>
-            trace all curses calls.  The parameters for each call
-            are traced, as well as return values.
+            trace all curses calls.  The parameters for each call are  traced,
+            as well as return values.
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_VIRTPUT</STRONG>
             trace virtual character puts, i.e., calls to <STRONG>addch</STRONG>.
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_VIRTPUT</STRONG>
             trace virtual character puts, i.e., calls to <STRONG>addch</STRONG>.
@@ -141,40 +156,54 @@
             trace changes to video attributes and colors.
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_MAXIMUM</STRONG>
             trace changes to video attributes and colors.
 
        <STRONG>TRACE_MAXIMUM</STRONG>
-            maximum  trace  level,  enables  all  of the separate
-            trace features.
+            maximum trace level, enables all of the separate trace features.
+
+       Some  tracing  features  are  enabled  whenever  the <STRONG>trace</STRONG> parameter is
+       nonzero.  Some features overlap.  The specific  names  are  used  as  a
+       guideline.
+
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Initialization">Initialization</a></H3><PRE>
+       These  functions  check  the <STRONG>NCURSES_TRACE</STRONG> environment variable, to set
+       the tracing feature as if <STRONG>trace</STRONG> was called:
+
+           filter, initscr, new_prescr, newterm, nofilter, restartterm,
+           ripoffline, setupterm, slk_init, tgetent, use_env,
+           use_extended_names, use_tioctl
 
 
-       Some tracing features are enabled whenever the  <STRONG>trace</STRONG>  pa-
-       rameter  is nonzero.  Some features overlap.  The specific
-       names are used as a guideline.
 
 
-       The other functions either return a pointer to  a  string-
-       area  (allocated by the corresponding function), or return
-       no value (such as <STRONG>_tracedump</STRONG>, which implements the  screen
-       dump  for <STRONG>TRACE_UPDATE</STRONG>).  The caller should not free these
-       strings, since the  allocation  is  reused  on  successive
-       calls.  To work around the problem of a single string-area
-       per function, some use a buffer-number parameter,  telling
-       the library to allocate additional string-areas.
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Command-line-Utilities">Command-line Utilities</a></H3><PRE>
+       The command-line utilities such as  <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1)</A></STRONG>  provide  a  verbose  option
+       which  extends  the  set  of messages written using the <STRONG>trace</STRONG> function.
+       Both of these (<STRONG>-v</STRONG> and <STRONG>trace</STRONG>) use the same variable (<STRONG>_nc_tracing</STRONG>), which
+       determines the messages which are written.
 
 
-       These  functions check the <STRONG>NCURSES_TRACE</STRONG> environment vari-
-       able, to set the tracing feature as if <STRONG>trace</STRONG> was called:
+       Because  the  command-line  utilities may call initialization functions
+       such as <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG>, <STRONG>tgetent</STRONG> or <STRONG>use_extended_names</STRONG>, some of their  debug-
+       ging  output may be directed to the <EM>trace</EM> file if the <STRONG>NCURSES_TRACE</STRONG> en-
+       vironment variable is set:
 
 
-              filter, initscr, new_prescr, newterm, nofilter,
-              restartterm, ripoffline, setupterm, slk_init, tge-
-              tent, use_env, use_extended_names, use_tioctl
+       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   messages produced in the utility are written to the standard error.
+
+       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   messages produced by the underlying library are written to <EM>trace</EM>.
+
+       If ncurses is built without tracing, none of the latter  are  produced,
+       and fewer diagnostics are provided by the command-line utilities.
 
 
 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
 
 
 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
-       Routines which return a value are designed to be  used  as
-       parameters to the <STRONG>_tracef</STRONG> routine.
+       Routines  which return a value are designed to be used as parameters to
+       the <STRONG>_tracef</STRONG> routine.
 
 
 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
 
 
 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
-       These  functions  are not part of the XSI interface.  Some
-       other curses implementations are known  to  have  similar,
-       undocumented  features,  but  they are not compatible with
-       ncurses.
+       These functions are not part of the XSI interface.  Some  other  curses
+       implementations  are  known to have similar, undocumented features, but
+       they are not compatible with ncurses.
+
+       A few functions are not provided when symbol versioning is used:
+
+           _nc_tracebits, _tracedump, _tracemouse
 
 
 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
 
 
 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
@@ -182,13 +211,20 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
-                                                         <STRONG><A HREF="curs_trace.3x.html">curs_trace(3x)</A></STRONG>
+                                                                <STRONG><A HREF="curs_trace.3x.html">curs_trace(3x)</A></STRONG>
 </PRE>
 <div class="nav">
 <ul>
 <li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li>
 <li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
 </PRE>
 <div class="nav">
 <ul>
 <li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li>
 <li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
-<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#h3-Functions">Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-Trace-Parameter">Trace Parameter</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-Initialization">Initialization</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-Command-line-Utilities">Command-line Utilities</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
 <li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li>
 <li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
 <li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
 <li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li>
 <li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
 <li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
ncurses, with patches starting at ncurses-5.6; new users should use https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots/