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diff --git a/man3/malloc.3 b/man3/malloc.3 index 8f7436422e..deba0ecc8f 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 2007-09-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH MALLOC 3 2008-02-22 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME calloc, malloc, free, realloc \- Allocate and free dynamic memory .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -98,12 +98,14 @@ The contents will be unchanged to the minimum of the old and new sizes; newly allocated memory will be uninitialized. If .I ptr -is NULL, the call is equivalent to +is NULL, then the call is equivalent to .IR malloc(size) ; if .I size is equal to zero, -the call is equivalent to +and +.I ptr +is not NULL, then the call is equivalent to .IR free(ptr) . Unless .I ptr |