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| author |   jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2003-11-25 12:32:54 +0000 |
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| committer | jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2003-11-25 12:32:54 +0000 |
| commit | 61575d8ec07b7154a224e1a1fea5c6ac7007c382 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a4f269aaaec701ef9dd76be34d729102259254a /lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 | |
| parent | - document interaction with SIGINFO, as observed by Franciszek Holop on misc@ (diff) | |
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wording improvements from Brian Poole;
kill a .Pp before a display;
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 index 2af89006560..1182256650a 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 +++ b/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 1.32 2003/10/16 17:05:04 tedu Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.33 2003/11/25 12:32:54 jmc Exp $ .\" .Dd August 27, 1996 .Dt MALLOC 3 @@ -141,7 +141,6 @@ object is returned. When using .Fn realloc one must be careful to avoid the following idiom: -.Pp .Bd -literal -offset indent size += 50; if ((p = realloc(p, size)) == NULL) @@ -349,7 +348,7 @@ internal freelist has been stomped on. Here is a brief description of the warning messages and what they mean: .Bl -tag -width Fl .It Dq chunk/page is already free. -A pointer to a free chunk is attempted freed again. +There was an attempt to free a chunk that had already been freed. .It Dq junk pointer, too high to make sense. The pointer doesn't make sense. It's above the area of memory that @@ -422,5 +421,5 @@ Every time the free-list is traversed, all the otherwise unused, and very likely paged out, pages get faulted into primary memory, just to see what lies after them in the list. .Pp -On systems which are paging, this can make a factor five in difference on the -page-faults of a process. +On systems which are paging, this can increase the page-faults +of a process by a factor of five. |