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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-03-23 21:07:58 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-03-23 21:07:58 +0000
commit89e52e28cf191fa186fce7cc879fc6bdf164884f (patch)
treea832378361b2e94337aca48e5208c03b3a21a963
parentef8f3a55fb1cf89975e29189e516da67f32d3247 (diff)
Clarify realloc return value
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.37
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
index f35c86ac48c..9edff6709c6 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.10 1998/11/17 23:41:43 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.11 1999/03/23 21:07:57 millert Exp $
.\"
.Dd August 27, 1996
.Dt MALLOC 3
@@ -101,8 +101,9 @@ The
.Fn realloc
function changes the size of the object pointed to by
.Fa ptr
-to the size specified by
-.Fa size .
+to
+.Fa size
+bytes and returns a pointer to the (possibly moved) object.
The contents of the object are unchanged up to the lesser
of the new and old sizes.
If the new size is larger, the value of the newly allocated portion