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diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3
index 27a49825bf5..0d17e6aec57 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: printf.3,v 1.38 2002/07/24 22:58:39 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: printf.3,v 1.39 2003/04/16 23:17:10 millert Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -146,9 +146,14 @@ This pointer should be passed to
.Xr free 3
to release the allocated storage when it is no longer needed.
If sufficient space cannot be allocated, these functions
-will return \-1 and set
+will return \-1.
+The value of
.Fa ret
-to be a null pointer.
+in this situation is implementation-dependent
+(on
+.Ox ,
+.Fa ret
+will be set to the null pointer, but this behavior should not be relied upon).
.Pp
.Fn snprintf
and