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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-17 17:08:01 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-30 15:14:55 +0200
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man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS, STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sections
- Add a new HISTORY section that covers the history of an API, both regarding implementations and regarding old standards. This was previously covered in VERSIONS, and in some cases in STANDARDS. - Repurpose VERSIONS to cover differing implementations in _current_ systems. - STANDARDS is reduced to only cover current versions of standards. That basically means only C11 (C99 has been superseeded by C11; C17 is just a bugfix of C11, so not really a new version), and POSIX.1-2008 (*-2001 was superseeded by *-2008; *-2017 was just a bugfix for *-2008). The section also mentions for example 'Linux', 'GNU' or 'BSD' when a non-standard API is Linux- or GNU-only or if it's (de-facto) standard in the BSDs. - In some cases content that should go into one of these sections was in NOTES. Move it from there to where it corresponds. - In the SYNOPSIS, I added [[deprecated]] in some functions that I found are deprecated by the relevant standards. - A few other related changes... Cc: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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@@ -246,9 +246,33 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.hy
.ad
.sp 1
-.SH VERSIONS
+.SH STANDARDS
+.TP
+.BR malloc ()
+.TQ
+.BR free ()
+.TQ
+.BR calloc ()
+.TQ
+.BR realloc ()
+C11, POSIX.1-2008.
+.TP
+.BR reallocarray ()
+None.
+.SH HISTORY
+.TP
+.BR malloc ()
+.TQ
+.BR free ()
+.TQ
+.BR calloc ()
+.TQ
+.BR realloc ()
+POSIX.1-2001, C89.
+.TP
.BR reallocarray ()
-was added in glibc 2.26.
+glibc 2.26.
+OpenBSD 5.6, FreeBSD 11.0.
.PP
.BR malloc ()
and related functions rejected sizes greater than
@@ -259,15 +283,6 @@ starting in glibc 2.30.
preserved
.I errno
starting in glibc 2.33.
-.SH STANDARDS
-.BR malloc (),
-.BR free (),
-.BR calloc (),
-.BR realloc ():
-POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99.
-.PP
-.BR reallocarray ()
-is a nonstandard extension that first appeared in OpenBSD 5.6 and FreeBSD 11.0.
.SH NOTES
By default, Linux follows an optimistic memory allocation strategy.
This means that when