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authorTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-03-14 08:07:18 +0000
committerTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-03-14 08:07:18 +0000
commit183f395c63b798a875985b9650365756fd42f964 (patch)
tree80a9b227f7bbe11d2cedf48862b1693cb9a1973c /lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
parent189ab46be65d21170885b017db8682b54525da6a (diff)
remove incorrect statement. the standard *does* require calloc to check
for overflow. stop talking about old broken systems, there's little use for such info.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.39
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
index fadf9e24d74..32f36bd6496 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.89 2015/01/08 03:41:14 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.90 2015/03/14 08:07:17 tedu Exp $
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 8 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 14 2015 $
.Dt MALLOC 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -437,11 +437,6 @@ other conforming implementations may return
.Dv NULL
in this case.
.Pp
-The standard does not require
-.Fn calloc
-to check for integer overflow,
-but most modern implementations provide this check.
-.Pp
The
.Ev MALLOC_OPTIONS
environment variable, the file