Support larger-than-page-alignment requests in posix_memalign() by

overallocating and then releasing unneeded memory pages.

ok otto

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/posix_memalign.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/posix_memalign.3
index 46b74af7be..05ec1b9d14 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/posix_memalign.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/posix_memalign.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"     $OpenBSD: posix_memalign.3,v 1.2 2010/05/19 06:32:43 jmc Exp $
+.\"     $OpenBSD: posix_memalign.3,v 1.3 2012/06/18 17:03:52 matthew Exp $
 .\" Copyright (C) 2006 Jason Evans <jasone@FreeBSD.org>.
 .\" All rights reserved.
 .\"
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/stdlib/posix_memalign.3,v 1.3 2007/03/28 04:32:51 jasone Exp $
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 19 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 18 2012 $
 .Dt POSIX_MEMALIGN 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -90,5 +90,3 @@ The
 .Fn posix_memalign
 function first appeared in
 .Ox 4.8 .
-.Sh BUGS
-Only alignments up to the page size can be specified.