posix_memalign(3)

posix_memalign(3)

[Jonny Grant]

Hello

Some feedback, suggestions.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/posix_memalign.3.html
"ENOMEM There was insufficient memory to fulfill the allocation request."

Rather wordy, how about "ENOMEM Out of memory" ? that would match malloc(3)


There are quite a few extra words in the description, how about simplifying:

Orig:
"The function posix_memalign() allocates size bytes and places the
address of the allocated memory in *memptr. "

Simplification:
"posix_memalign() allocates size bytes and places the
allocated memory address in *memptr."

Another one.
Orig:
"The function aligned_alloc() is the same as memalign(), except
for the added restriction that size should be a multiple of
alignment."

simplification:

"aligned_alloc() is the same as memalign(), except
for the added restriction that size should be a multiple of
alignment.

Kind regards, Jonny

Re: posix_memalign(3)

[Alejandro Colomar]

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Hi Jonny,

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 10:03:58PM +0000, Jonny Grant wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Some feedback, suggestions.
> 
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/posix_memalign.3.html
> "ENOMEM There was insufficient memory to fulfill the allocation request."
> 
> Rather wordy, how about "ENOMEM Out of memory" ? that would match malloc(3)

LGTM

> 
> 
> There are quite a few extra words in the description, how about simplifying:
> 
> Orig:
> "The function posix_memalign() allocates size bytes and places the
> address of the allocated memory in *memptr. "
> 
> Simplification:
> "posix_memalign() allocates size bytes and places the

LGTM

> allocated memory address in *memptr."

This doesn't convince me.  I've applied patches for all the other
suggestions.

> 
> Another one.
> Orig:
> "The function aligned_alloc() is the same as memalign(), except
> for the added restriction that size should be a multiple of
> alignment."
> 
> simplification:
> 
> "aligned_alloc() is the same as memalign(), except

LGTM

> for the added restriction that size should be a multiple of
> alignment.
> 
> Kind regards, Jonny

Thanks,
Alex

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