diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/malloc.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man3/malloc.3 b/man3/malloc.3 index faba11ee02..4067aeab05 100644 --- a/man3/malloc.3 +++ b/man3/malloc.3 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" Documented MALLOC_CHECK_, Wolfram Gloger (wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de) .\" 2007-09-15 mtk: added notes on malloc()'s use of sbrk() and mmap(). .\" -.TH MALLOC 3 2010-10-03 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH MALLOC 3 2010-10-18 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME malloc, free, calloc, realloc \- Allocate and free dynamic memory .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ The function allocates .I size bytes and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. -The memory is not cleared. +.IR "The memory is not initialized" . If .I size is 0, then @@ -97,8 +97,10 @@ to .I size bytes. The contents will be unchanged in the range from the start of the region -up to the minimum of the old and new sizes; -newly allocated memory will be uninitialized. +up to the minimum of the old and new sizes. +If the new size is larger than the old size, the added memory will +.I not +be initialized. If .I ptr is NULL, then the call is equivalent to |