Re: [PATCH 1/2] strdup.3: drop mention of "the GNU GCC suite"

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Hello Ahelenia,

On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 23:01, наб <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch could do with a short commit message I think. See below.

> ---
>  man3/strdup.3 | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man3/strdup.3 b/man3/strdup.3
> index 1e1ac34de..963de7d48 100644
> --- a/man3/strdup.3
> +++ b/man3/strdup.3
> @@ -99,9 +99,6 @@ and
>  are similar, but use
>  .BR alloca (3)
>  to allocate the buffer.
> -They are available only when using the GNU
> -GCC suite, and suffer from the same limitations described in
> -.BR alloca (3).

Dropping mention of GCC seems reasonable, but why drop the piece about
"same limitations..."?

Thanks,

Michael

>  .SH RETURN VALUE
>  On success, the
>  .BR strdup ()
> --
> 2.20.1
>


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/




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