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authorJason Downs <downsj@cvs.openbsd.org>1996-08-21 03:12:19 +0000
committerJason Downs <downsj@cvs.openbsd.org>1996-08-21 03:12:19 +0000
commitaf5fb245479c21b57138d2cd39804116813e0cba (patch)
tree9df57afe2fa99c7b7d708e92fa48565ef11df8b7 /lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
parenta5fa21f5ce8c4c39e65a9c70705174a527528e33 (diff)
Document it.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.314
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
index b6acd648549..979e77016df 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 1.2 1996/08/10 04:18:49 tholo Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.3 1996/08/21 03:12:18 downsj Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 4, 1993
.Dt MALLOC 3
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@
.Nm malloc ,
.Nd general memory allocation function
.Pp
-.Nm free
+.Nm free ,
+.Nm cfree
.Nd free up memory allocated with malloc, calloc or realloc
.Pp
.Nm realloc
@@ -53,6 +54,8 @@
.Fn malloc "size_t size"
.Ft void
.Fn free "void *ptr"
+.Ft void
+.Fn cfree "void *ptr"
.Ft void *
.Fn realloc "void *ptr" "size_t size"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
@@ -83,6 +86,13 @@ If
.Fa ptr
is a null pointer, no action occurs.
.Pp
+A
+.Fn cfree
+function is also provided for compatibility with old systems and other
+.Nm malloc
+libraries; it is simply an alias for
+.Fn free .
+.Pp
The
.Fn realloc
function changes the size of the object pointed to by