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authortedu <>2015-03-14 08:07:17 +0000
committertedu <>2015-03-14 08:07:17 +0000
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remove incorrect statement. the standard *does* require calloc to check
for overflow. stop talking about old broken systems, there's little use for such info.
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-rw-r--r--src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.39
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
index fadf9e24d7..32f36bd649 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
30.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
31.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
32.\" 32.\"
33.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.89 2015/01/08 03:41:14 deraadt Exp $ 33.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.90 2015/03/14 08:07:17 tedu Exp $
34.\" 34.\"
35.Dd $Mdocdate: January 8 2015 $ 35.Dd $Mdocdate: March 14 2015 $
36.Dt MALLOC 3 36.Dt MALLOC 3
37.Os 37.Os
38.Sh NAME 38.Sh NAME
@@ -437,11 +437,6 @@ other conforming implementations may return
437.Dv NULL 437.Dv NULL
438in this case. 438in this case.
439.Pp 439.Pp
440The standard does not require
441.Fn calloc
442to check for integer overflow,
443but most modern implementations provide this check.
444.Pp
445The 440The
446.Ev MALLOC_OPTIONS 441.Ev MALLOC_OPTIONS
447environment variable, the file 442environment variable, the file