Re: posix_memalign

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Hi Jon,

On 09/03/13 19:32, Jon Grant wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a proposal to change the description on this page to be clearer:
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/posix_memalign.3.html
> 
> Currently:
> 
> "If size is 0, then
> posix_memalign() returns either NULL, or a unique pointer value that
> can later be successfully passed to free(3)."
> 
> --As posix_memalign doesn't "return" the value, but places the address
> in *memptr I propose to change it to:
> 
> "If size is 0, then
> posix_memalign() either places NULL in *memptr, or a unique pointer value that
> can later be successfully passed to free(3)."

By chance, someone else recently reported this (offlist), and I 
made a change (commit 558f02dff03b5835d9f83f20b2056f38c6238a36).

Cheers,

Michael

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