From eeb2000e18d80c90d48fad421e556fd7fa5f8706 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 23:50:36 +0200
Subject: info: alloca.h
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Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
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doc/info/chap/memory-allocation.texinfo | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/doc/info/chap/memory-allocation.texinfo b/doc/info/chap/memory-allocation.texinfo
index 5107d3a..de2264b 100644
--- a/doc/info/chap/memory-allocation.texinfo
+++ b/doc/info/chap/memory-allocation.texinfo
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ violation, also known as segmentation fault.} signal.
@cpindex Automatic allocations
@cpindex Stack-allocations
@fnindex alloca
+@hfindex alloca.h
The function @code{void* alloca(size_t n)} appears
on multiple systems: 32V, @sc{PWB}, @sc{PWB}.2,
3@sc{BSD}, 4@sc{BSD}, and @sc{GNU}. It has been
@@ -274,7 +275,8 @@ feature-test macros, despite not being standardised
(for instance, it does not appear in @sc{POSIX}).
This function is however not portable, and will not
be made available if @code{_PORTABLE_SOURCE} or
-@code{_LIBRARY_HEADER} is defined.
+@code{_LIBRARY_HEADER} is defined. @code{alloca}
+is defined in the header file @file{<alloca.h>}.
@code{void* alloca(size_t n)} is similar to the
function @code{malloc}. It allocates a contiguous
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