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diff --git a/src/allocators/chattymalloc.py b/src/allocators/chattymalloc.py
index 6688f51..f6618ef 100644
--- a/src/allocators/chattymalloc.py
+++ b/src/allocators/chattymalloc.py
@@ -1,6 +1,31 @@
+# Copyright 2018-2019 Florian Fischer <florian.fl.fischer@fau.de>
+#
+# This file is part of allocbench.
+#
+# allocbench is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# allocbench is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with allocbench. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+"""chattymalloc allocator
+
+This shared library is no functional allocator. It is used to retrieve a trace
+of the allocator usage of the executed programm. It overrides the malloc API
+and writes each call and its result to an output file.
+See src/chattymalloc.c and chattyparser.py for its implementation and usage.
+"""
+
import os
-from src.allocator import Allocator, builddir
+from src.allocator import Allocator, BUILDDIR
chattymalloc = Allocator("chattymalloc",
- LD_PRELOAD=os.path.join(builddir, "chattymalloc.so"),
+ LD_PRELOAD=os.path.join(BUILDDIR, "chattymalloc.so"),
cmd_prefix="env CHATTYMALLOC_FILE={{result_dir}}/chatty_{{perm}}.txt")