From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aligned_alloc: update to match C17
Date: Mon, 08 May 2023 20:43:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xn4jome3m0.fsf@greed.delorie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8269a58-9206-f8b8-3a41-097185bc138e@gmail.com>
Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> writes:
> Thanks for the patch! IIRC this is something that someone reported in
> the list a few months ago, right?
Years ago, actually.
> Would you mind mentioning the reporter
> and CC anyone involved in the discussion? If it's difficult for you to
> find those, tell me and I'll do it.
I got them:
Link: <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2023-May/147810.html>
Link: <https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/33ec9e0c1e587813b90e8aa771c2c8e6e379dd48.camel@posteo.net/>
Cc: John Scott <jscott@posteo.net>
Signed-off-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
diff --git a/man3/posix_memalign.3 b/man3/posix_memalign.3
index 9bc6eb9a4..88e4a8b63 100644
--- a/man3/posix_memalign.3
+++ b/man3/posix_memalign.3
@@ -91,9 +91,8 @@ The function
is the same as
.BR memalign (),
except for the added restriction that
-.I size
-should be a multiple of
-.IR alignment .
+.I alignment
+must be a power of two.
.PP
The obsolete function
.BR valloc ()
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-09 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-08 23:31 aligned_alloc: update to match C17 DJ Delorie
2023-05-09 0:01 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-05-09 0:43 ` DJ Delorie [this message]
2023-05-09 0:54 ` Alejandro Colomar
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