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authorTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-05-24 16:48:36 +0000
committerTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-05-24 16:48:36 +0000
commita60a085284029fbea2a691147255f1bd4cb5bc6e (patch)
tree157c82817ea305608b7fa9e5c1c5a6ee05d9f527
parentd9c61b4b90a7a0a87a71dd27ea7b32c3fedcdef5 (diff)
add a note describing latest guard feature
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.34
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
index 138ec708e8c..df62e7d3a52 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.37 2004/07/02 10:42:55 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.38 2005/05/24 16:48:35 tedu Exp $
.\"
.Dd August 27, 1996
.Dt MALLOC 3
@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ Enable guard pages and chunk randomization.
Each page size or larger allocation is followed by a guard page that will
cause a segmentation fault upon any access.
Smaller than page size chunks are returned in a random order.
+Pointer sized allocations are aligned to the end of a page to catch
+sizeof(ptr) errors where sizeof(*ptr) is meant.
.Pp
.It Cm H
.Dq Hint .