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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2002-03-22 09:39:21 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2002-03-22 09:39:21 +0000
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parentfbaee91d72bbe63f7502a5cb8486e0c0d36aa27e (diff)
(Aligned Memory Blocks): Correct description of where memalign is declared [PR libc/3127].
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@@ -617,14 +617,15 @@ The address of a block returned by @code{malloc} or @code{realloc} in
the GNU system is always a multiple of eight (or sixteen on 64-bit
systems). If you need a block whose address is a multiple of a higher
power of two than that, use @code{memalign}, @code{posix_memalign}, or
-@code{valloc}. These functions are declared in @file{stdlib.h}.
+@code{valloc}. @code{memalign} is declared in @file{malloc.h} and
+@code{posix_memalign) is declared in @file{stdlib.h}.
With the GNU library, you can use @code{free} to free the blocks that
@code{memalign}, @code{posix_memalign}, and @code{valloc} return. That
does not work in BSD, however---BSD does not provide any way to free
such blocks.
-@comment malloc.h stdlib.h
+@comment malloc.h
@comment BSD
@deftypefun {void *} memalign (size_t @var{boundary}, size_t @var{size})
The @code{memalign} function allocates a block of @var{size} bytes whose