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Add documentation about the environment variable. 

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@ -158,6 +158,12 @@ helper functions in their headers). The "myPool" variable can be passed around
and used as normal in allocation requests as described in section 2 of this
document.
Note that the type of pool you request won't always be the type you get - the
WIRESHARK_DEBUG_WMEM_OVERRIDE environment variable (if set) can be used to
force all calls to wmem_allocator_new() to returns a specific type for debugging
purposes. It will always be safe to call allocator-specific helpers though, they
will simply be no-ops if the type doesn't match.
3.3 Destroying a Pool
Regardless of which allocator you used to create a pool, it can be destroyed