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authorMattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>2018-11-14 23:07:52 +0100
committerMattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>2018-11-14 23:07:52 +0100
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Some fixes to libsimple-arg.h, test everything except long arguments, and fix some man pages
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>
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@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ pointer with an alignment of the page size
to the allocated memory. The function
.BR free (3)
shall be called with the returned pointer as
-input when the allocated memory is no longer needed.
+input when the allocated memory is no longer needed,
+but see
+.BR NOTES .
.PP
The
.BR libsimple_envalloc ()
@@ -131,6 +133,15 @@ None.
.SH FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.
.SH NOTES
+Portable applications shall assume that pointer
+returned by the
+.BR valloc ()
+function can be deallocated with the
+.BR free (3)
+functon, unless the namespaced alias
+.BR libsimple_valloc ()
+is used explicitly.
+.PP
The GNU implementation of
.BR valloc (3)
is \(dqMT-Unsafe init\(dq.