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| author | Ted Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2005-05-24 16:48:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Ted Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2005-05-24 16:48:36 +0000 |
| commit | a60a085284029fbea2a691147255f1bd4cb5bc6e (patch) | |
| tree | 157c82817ea305608b7fa9e5c1c5a6ee05d9f527 /lib | |
| parent | d9c61b4b90a7a0a87a71dd27ea7b32c3fedcdef5 (diff) | |
add a note describing latest guard feature
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 | 4 |
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 . |