From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Pfister <johannes.pfister@josttech.ch>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, BUG 211039] malloc.3: Document that realloc(p, 0) is specific to glibc and nonportable
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:38:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9bbf61d-37db-ef11-d293-df3ea56351c5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0j1hUagqx4VOsvDS8-24jF6OU+Aaks2GXdKxo89en_oNz+=A@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/11/21 11:13 AM, Johannes Pfister wrote:
>> A more detailed notice is on realloc(3p).
>
> Yes. But i think it will lead to bugs when there is a documentation
> that describes the behavior of realloc(), says realloc(ptr,0) will do
> free(ptr), says realloc() is conforming to POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008,
> C89, C99.
> But does not mention that the realloc(ptr,0) is not specified in this
> standards (except C89).
>
> And there are some distributions that do not include the realloc(3p)
> man page. On my Debian Buster (10) there is no realloc(3p) man page
> and man realloc goes to the malloc man page of the Linux Programmer's
> Manual.
> But maybe this is a problem of the distributions/Debian?
Hi Johannes,
That was the message for the commit.
See commit: da116d481b79892026029b442fb381713a09f123
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=da116d481b79892026029b442fb381713a09f123>
>
>> Thanks for the report, Johannes!
>> Please review that your name is correct (I guessed it from the email).
> Yes it is. Should i configure my name somewhere?
No, don't worry. It was only for the "Reported-by" line in the patch.
Regards,
Alex
--
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-09 21:15 [PATCH, BUG 211039] malloc.3: Document that realloc(p, 0) is specific to glibc and nonportable Alejandro Colomar
2021-01-10 8:19 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-11 10:13 ` Johannes Pfister
2021-01-11 14:38 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]
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