From 862a82773ece988da646708d832f31285ad019de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Todd C. Miller" Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:43:36 +0000 Subject: Don't mention old systems where realloc(NULL, n) didn't work as we don't want to give people the idea that this is non-portable (it has been present since C89). OK deraadt@ schwarze@ --- lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 | 18 +++++++----------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 index 2647434eaad..8ae3ba20e6d 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 1.83 2014/10/23 05:48:40 doug Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.84 2014/10/30 20:43:35 millert Exp $ .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: October 23 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 30 2014 $ .Dt MALLOC 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -265,12 +265,13 @@ if ((newp = reallocarray(p, num, size)) == NULL) { ... .Ed .Pp -Code designed for some ancient platforms avoided calling +Calling .Fn realloc with a .Dv NULL -.Fa ptr . -Such hacks are no longer necessary in modern code. +.Fa ptr +is equivalent to calling +.Fn malloc . Instead of this idiom: .Bd -literal -offset indent if (p == NULL) @@ -279,12 +280,7 @@ else newp = realloc(p, newsize); .Ed .Pp -Use the following as calling -.Fn realloc -with -.Dv NULL -is equivalent to calling -.Fn malloc : +Use the following: .Bd -literal -offset indent newp = realloc(p, newsize); .Ed -- cgit v1.2.3