From 23e56282d50b1b5d7c331bccc6df913fa29b0cc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: deraadt <>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:10:56 +0000
Subject: improve example even more

---
 src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/lib/libc/stdlib')

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
index d92ebdb2b4..73124a2040 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.29 2003/09/18 22:49:13 tedu Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.30 2003/09/25 11:10:56 deraadt Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd August 27, 1996
 .Dt MALLOC 3
@@ -158,13 +158,14 @@ indicates that the old object still remains allocated.
 Better code looks like this:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 newsize = size + 50;
-if ((p2 = realloc(p, newsize)) == NULL) {
+if ((newp = realloc(p, newsize)) == NULL) {
 	if (p)
 		free(p);
 	p = NULL;
+	size = 0;
 	return (NULL);
 }
-p = p2;
+p = newp;
 size = newsize;
 .Ed
 .Pp
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