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Diffstat (limited to 'manual')
-rw-r--r-- | manual/dir | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | manual/install.texi | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | manual/stdio.texi | 5 |
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/manual/dir b/manual/dir index f5920b12be..ee98f79f59 100644 --- a/manual/dir +++ b/manual/dir @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ -$Id$ This is the file .../info/dir, which contains the topmost node of the Info hierarchy. The first time you invoke Info you start off looking at that node, which is (dir)Top. diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index dee5c9b6b6..b538f77fb2 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -357,11 +357,10 @@ understand all the tags used in the document, and the installation mechanism for the info files is not present or works differently. @item -GNU @code{awk} 3.0, or some other POSIX awk +GNU @code{awk} 3.0, or higher -@code{Awk} is used in several places to generate files. The scripts -should work with any POSIX-compliant @code{awk} implementation; -@code{gawk} 3.0 and @code{mawk} 1.3 are known to work. +@code{Awk} is used in several places to generate files. +@code{gawk} 3.0 is known to work. @item Perl 5 diff --git a/manual/stdio.texi b/manual/stdio.texi index 29de41a167..e4278b7a32 100644 --- a/manual/stdio.texi +++ b/manual/stdio.texi @@ -4852,8 +4852,9 @@ Got r @comment GNU @deftypefun {FILE *} open_memstream (char **@var{ptr}, size_t *@var{sizeloc}) This function opens a stream for writing to a buffer. The buffer is -allocated dynamically (as with @code{malloc}; @pxref{Unconstrained -Allocation}) and grown as necessary. +allocated dynamically and grown as necessary, using @code{malloc}. +After you've closed the stream, this buffer is your responsibility to +clean up using @code{free} or @code{realloc}. @xref{Unconstrained Allocation}. When the stream is closed with @code{fclose} or flushed with @code{fflush}, the locations @var{ptr} and @var{sizeloc} are updated to |