Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] alloca.3: clarify origins in CONFORMING TO

Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-09-15T19:49:59Z

On 9/14/21 2:41 PM, наб wrote:
> alloca() is supported by PWB/UNIX[1] (V6) and UNIX/32V[2] (V7),
> for the PDP-11 and VAX, respectively; the former trickles into
> UNIX System III[3], and the latter into 3BSD[4] and later[5]
>
> 1: https://ftp.okass.net/pub/mirror/minnie.tuhs.org/Distributions/USDL/spencer_pwb.tar.gz
> sys/source/s4/util/alloca.s
> 2: https://ftp.okass.net/pub/mirror/minnie.tuhs.org/Distributions/USDL/32V/32v_usr.tar.gz
> usr/src/libc/sys/alloca.s
> 3: https://vetusware.com/download/UNIX%20System%20III%20Source%20Code%20SYSIII/?id=11576
> 4: https://ftp.okass.net/pub/mirror/minnie.tuhs.org/Distributions/UCB/
> 5: https://archive.org/details/The_CSRG_Archives_CD-ROM_3_August_1998_Marshall_Kirk_McKusick
>
> Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>

наб, patch applied!

Cheers,

Alex

> ---
> man3/alloca.3 | 5 +----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man3/alloca.3 b/man3/alloca.3
> index 5bceeabe1..71348e609 100644
> --- a/man3/alloca.3
> +++ b/man3/alloca.3
> @@ -84,11 +84,8 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe
> .SH CONFORMING TO
> This function is not in POSIX.1.
> .PP
> -There is evidence that the
> .BR alloca ()
> -function appeared in 32V, PWB, PWB.2, 3BSD, and 4BSD.
> -There is a man page for it in 4.3BSD.
> -Linux uses the GNU version.
> +originates from PWB and 32V, and appears in all their derivatives.
> .SH NOTES
> The
> .BR alloca ()
>

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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/