From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Cc: linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: should free() refer to posix_memalign?
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 16:58:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bfeeca4-66c7-6349-4009-e724c2eb2fd5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bdd56782-05d4-d4b9-a9a7-81f8ee8749d9@jguk.org>
Hi Jonny,
On 10/8/21 3:28 PM, Jonny Grant wrote:
>> I don't like that list. It is incomplete (the first one that comes to my mind is asprintf(3)). Either we provide a _complete_ list of functions that can be free(3)d, which I think will be difficult to keep up to date, or we use the same wording as POSIX, and say that it deallocates memory allocated as if by malloc(3).
>>
>>
>> What are your thoughts?
>
> That sounds reasonable.
>
> "deallocates" sounds better than "frees"
When I was going to fix it, I noticed that we already had that fixed
recently:
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=cfc381be29fb7b4f642b8b333882f22628112abe>
Kind 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: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-08 11:19 should free() refer to posix_memalign? Jonny Grant
2021-10-08 12:30 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-10-08 13:28 ` Jonny Grant
2021-10-08 14:58 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]
2021-10-08 17:57 ` Jonny Grant
2021-10-09 18:39 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-10-09 20:15 ` Jonny Grant
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