From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C80B93CEB87 for ; Thu, 14 May 2026 21:29:43 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1778794183; cv=none; b=LJDBa40m6hTDQvlVcv9POBjm/bd6d9RgH6tyvUgWnJTgOvIhNHsouWqhM+U5k5Xgnr+be8hpgIuy7YCXQnytVoY6qfmcIvLzYAxlUDmFNe4NZ+SAmudZPa9krJaj2MchkKxfIdQ83WlHw7p0chxlFCrE+aJeeYUwcdwghvXmTMY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1778794183; c=relaxed/simple; bh=FNl+loQVNU1MXHYF6OcSUhncbAZncoDFbkx9OQylipQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=fTtH7APtlqzg6iJwlZfD78vKOXjhBWKwipqfKjmit8Sth+GzyyuvcA/f8LrpGIlZwk/pStGUy3ncNKXDmAwdBfV/3wvs095r3jXbEG6yXZkTAqNh4kDhm4MF1GYn1opsTosvzOV+SRMZv0y24wbf15d9Y6fDj9IcpNVaGE2Zl4w= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=nwVyXoqu; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="nwVyXoqu" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B6B81C2BCB3; Thu, 14 May 2026 21:29:42 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1778794183; bh=FNl+loQVNU1MXHYF6OcSUhncbAZncoDFbkx9OQylipQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=nwVyXoquF9Dm0OovIO6wX2FFh/JUVr9TNaVS5ZxUCVSkBoX82oj/zY6srp/jvoHhe 6UcVo8g6PhWVhQGuTGY5sQwdMLhOX3NqqwxD8hfjUSUMxKZAapwEwmRG36Nt3dK2ak 8ceP3PgwYVKpZlTcad8NtBijmWWBVO25FTTL7ZISFirEzNjH4bu+isKVaGBvOE8d87 dH0mC0ZIp7wpj7WGxXUHZVBfzYTR+Fa97ivc3z4LcJ77/YQruGS3nDMMJSWc77U17Q 5yLGtr91ot0x4W1URvSjGnVkOeI6S2Z3LsHCKjquO3OFwsttPcVl3PmqBhkNSizii0 f/lyT5+RDnS5A== Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 23:29:40 +0200 From: Alejandro Colomar To: Kalevi Kolttonen Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: reallocarray() is now part of POSIX Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k7m4ybj4wnk23okl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: --k7m4ybj4wnk23okl Content-Type: text/plain; protected-headers=v1; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Alejandro Colomar To: Kalevi Kolttonen Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: reallocarray() is now part of POSIX Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: On 2026-05-15T00:14:10+0300, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote: > Hello! Hi! > The man page for 'reallocarray' claims this function > is not standardized. However, it is now part of POSIX. You probably have an old version of the manual page. The current manual page documents POSIX.1-2024: $ man -w reallocarray \ | MANWIDTH=3D64 xargs mansectf STANDARDS \ | head -n11; malloc(3) Library Functions Manual malloc(3) STANDARDS malloc() free() calloc() realloc() C23, POSIX.1=E2=80=902024. reallocarray() POSIX.1=E2=80=902024. This was documented in b9ebd195 (2025-07-20; "man/man3/malloc.3: STANDARDS, HISTORY, BUGS: Clarify= (non)conformance of realloc{,array}(3)"). That commit was part of man-pages-6.15: $ git describe --contains b9ebd195 man-pages-6.15~1 Which was released 10 months ago: tag man-pages-6.15 Tagger: Alejandro Colomar Date: 2025-07-20 23:49:35 +0200 man-pages-6.15 - manual pages for GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEES7Jt9u9GbmlWADAi64mZXMKQwqkFAmh9ZKwACgkQ64mZXMKQ wqnjPQ//db5f+yZ+Ew9mueXt7Mw8EY918/wGuiMZC31M/lNSywpFrczzsG+SLyMv QJwdK4ZJG62j5zA3eiFonpSsApxFPGb8aZhFlH/IjN5V0ilpxOKa9YfGKx150fi0 l+uMNRl4dV3lK3EavOcHHClPwQDQ2qOxt+WTksMHGOusr2/y+MyMcHEkXkvQfQDr GeLvBumPLoxMM1tieGoXdSn6dx39eQAqQB1H/LhFejR+OX+bpVVfcDUWzH2HNXo4 UaUxKMgY1QfFVy1Azjm45Zt/uz2br/PFJ4NdfawpNT/3qN9L3egTQeyMuSlOQZnI c8MGi0D2VIotvyGmewCKSta2Wx8VpTe9BY/iB+Afdt9urUkj+A6EPpacVOFJbWxG nMjIYJsEDhrwvjIwliC5YD6CIEmXYRk/xYmd4QXKu+82EAc1ttd5+aFdiAP8e1DL m77hABRDINTwFTQ5rq5VuSL9WqYhYSVzoM5rf3Y/AzyUaqeg/6peqSY8aMuDVc5X zXbrDK86/iDBPYiFIbNxS5iy/rlROxL1/UVzVSmmp+u5/u6tGkpBCDvPSoaP4XfW xzjwYsEJroTHtJ/X2f/Gib6Aovo5Cyut2t7Y0z1wbocJKWn0FlKHbNnPLFsxKr6B t8fzPTQql83qlvNqPJKQEPR+ZSshnZvWcRMwP3PUxq1LsApAWkA=3D =3D1+GK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Have a lovely night! Alex > FreeBSD 15 man page says: >=20 > reallocarray() conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 (=E2=80=9CPOSIX.1=E2=80= =9D). >=20 > br, > KK >=20 --=20 --k7m4ybj4wnk23okl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEES7Jt9u9GbmlWADAi64mZXMKQwqkFAmoGPr0ACgkQ64mZXMKQ wqnA8Q//eg/Z0zqc+Iin2K3rIHOV/SiUDAiUDEaMPLdm6biE5OFRg2PVN7F1A/S6 dMvKFWmV5KwAOh/rHfCAFvmBqorhY+uNXLVyJtvh/PcDZBcgzi+bdyIkUIlGNPhG WFtOhv0+XvSSuBDrFhta5xdlKbZJaSw8skuwXSqeulRXUtf7Q2CPTwW9ShbludeD HOx4XEg2Iaxm2/HnWHA+ajkxRLrFfkWY+bQRFpP29i4zpLxKUrLRZ0zny2nqqmtW gIxlFIHwYx+SiF4+HheTry6NtTz6VXwDfRhIKRTFMjy+AYIL4M1n43Ua+5mZIW4p SGvARSlR2fzAhVLOFBE0WrAAqVr3oaJu3d0TqqbZQgXm3lwJMAZhPiqwkcgwREhg oKo8nH6FXypktZwd1IKP6T2lDeTVLK542mmpDSqQWrXodkw4pA4nG7mJMJHQsGZ+ wuht/dux2W4aQRrAfnLsEP2+vKQ2NwG1O01fqy/nYT6DjvwimMyQfAfinJVd7yZk jFT/4ztusn/zHiyHmkZ3XK3Vm77KfwAJ6HfSg9fmkriG/fN4ROYNOZRO436vb/HY a6kp66cpJO6N/eTjaoFZ2WCPF4C/7m/HAuKwBTZPZxNAMvfG/XLtr3rJlZ61oAMx yDpGanFc2RlWTBWLK5S/Mk0UVwzoqavPA/d1U9yD9KB9R5p6Ugg= =8mLA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k7m4ybj4wnk23okl--