From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: Kalevi Kolttonen <kalevi@kolttonen.fi>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reallocarray() is now part of POSIX
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 23:29:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <agY88e74EJ72Vli7@devuan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <agY7IsrJiFZdAreh@14-5A-FC-31-E8-67>
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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=64 xargs mansectf STANDARDS \
| head -n11;
malloc(3) Library Functions Manual malloc(3)
STANDARDS
malloc()
free()
calloc()
realloc()
C23, POSIX.1‐2024.
reallocarray()
POSIX.1‐2024.
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 <alx@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-07-20 23:49:35 +0200
man-pages-6.15 - manual pages for GNU/Linux
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Have a lovely night!
Alex
> FreeBSD 15 man page says:
>
> reallocarray() conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 (“POSIX.1”).
>
> br,
> KK
>
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2026-05-14 21:14 reallocarray() is now part of POSIX Kalevi Kolttonen
2026-05-14 21:29 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2026-05-14 21:38 ` Kalevi Kolttonen
2026-05-14 21:44 ` Alejandro Colomar
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