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Diffstat (limited to 'man/man3/malloc.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man3/malloc.3 | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man/man3/malloc.3 b/man/man3/malloc.3 index 2c2eb59fa3..953b3c77c4 100644 --- a/man/man3/malloc.3 +++ b/man/man3/malloc.3 @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ Standard C library .P .BI "void *malloc(size_t " size ); .BI "void free(void *_Nullable " ptr ); -.BI "void *calloc(size_t " nmemb ", size_t " size ); +.BI "void *calloc(size_t " n ", size_t " size ); .BI "void *realloc(void *_Nullable " ptr ", size_t " size ); -.BI "void *reallocarray(void *_Nullable " ptr ", size_t " nmemb ", size_t " size ); +.BI "void *reallocarray(void *_Nullable " ptr ", size_t " n ", size_t " size ); .fi .P .RS -4 @@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ is NULL, no operation is performed. The .BR calloc () function allocates memory for an array of -.I nmemb +.I n elements of .I size bytes each and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. The memory is set to zero. If -.I nmemb +.I n or .I size is 0, then @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ returns a unique pointer value that can later be successfully passed to .BR free (). .P If the multiplication of -.I nmemb +.I n and .I size would result in integer overflow, then @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ with the result that an incorrectly sized block of memory would be allocated: .P .in +4n .EX -malloc(nmemb * size); +malloc(n * size); .EE .in .SS realloc() @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ function changes the size of (and possibly moves) the memory block pointed to by .I ptr to be large enough for an array of -.I nmemb +.I n elements, each of which is .I size bytes. @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ It is equivalent to the call .P .in +4n .EX -realloc(ptr, nmemb * size); +realloc(ptr, n * size); .EE .in .P @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ and #define MALLOCARRAY(n, type) ((type *) my_mallocarray(n, sizeof(type))) #define MALLOC(type) MALLOCARRAY(1, type) \& -static inline void *my_mallocarray(size_t nmemb, size_t size); +static inline void *my_mallocarray(size_t n, size_t size); \& int main(void) @@ -424,9 +424,9 @@ main(void) } \& static inline void * -my_mallocarray(size_t nmemb, size_t size) +my_mallocarray(size_t n, size_t size) { - return reallocarray(NULL, nmemb, size); + return reallocarray(NULL, n, size); } .EE .SH SEE ALSO |