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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-09-02 09:06:39 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-09-02 09:06:39 +0200
commit558f02dff03b5835d9f83f20b2056f38c6238a36 (patch)
tree41cad5c8a8a2b81fbca74c5cf0d31fb79fd24b6a
parent61a9bcb381b94fcc9e0e2dc93be7aceb127dca7c (diff)
posix_memalign.3: Clarify wording on "return value" when size==0
Reported-by: Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man3/posix_memalign.35
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man3/posix_memalign.3 b/man3/posix_memalign.3
index c14fac59..29217fa0 100644
--- a/man3/posix_memalign.3
+++ b/man3/posix_memalign.3
@@ -95,8 +95,9 @@ which must be a power of two and a multiple of
If
.I size
is 0, then
-.BR posix_memalign ()
-returns either NULL,
+the value placed in
+.IR "*memptr"
+is either NULL,
.\" glibc does this:
or a unique pointer value that can later be successfully passed to
.BR free (3).