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From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] alloca.3: clarify origins in CONFORMING TO
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 21:49:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98968f7d-1de1-64ac-4e36-2fd6231f5197@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a14e365450f9a28840dc4f2ae93ddc1f135294b8.1631622750.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>

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 ()
> 


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

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-15 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-23 21:01 [PATCH 1/2] strdup.3: drop mention of "the GNU GCC suite" наб
2021-08-23 21:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] alloca.3: rewrite NOTES наб
2021-08-24  9:50   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-08-24 10:04     ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-08-24 11:58       ` наб
2021-08-24 10:33     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-08-24 11:18       ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-08-25 18:21       ` наб
2021-08-24 11:47     ` наб
2021-08-24  9:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] strdup.3: drop mention of "the GNU GCC suite" Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-08-24 10:28   ` наб
2021-08-24 10:40     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-09-14 12:40 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] alloca(3) commentary re-write наб
2021-09-14 12:40   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] strdup.3: drop mention of "the GNU GCC suite" наб
2021-09-15 19:49     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-09-14 12:41   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] alloca.3: clarify origins in CONFORMING TO наб
2021-09-15 19:49     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]
2021-09-14 12:41   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] alloca.3: clarify reasoning for no error return in BUGS наб
2021-09-15 19:42     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-09-17 20:35       ` наб
2025-10-29  8:42       ` G. Branden Robinson
2025-10-29 10:15         ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-10-29 10:30           ` G. Branden Robinson
2025-10-29 10:58             ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-10-29 11:12               ` G. Branden Robinson
2025-10-29 11:23                 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-10-29 15:22         ` наб
2025-10-29 22:55           ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-09-14 12:41   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] alloca.3: remove GCC faffling from NOTES наб
2021-09-15 19:48     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-09-17 20:45       ` наб
2021-09-19 19:39         ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-09-14 12:41   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] alloca.3: simplfy malloc(3) suite comparison, note VLAs наб

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