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| author | Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-01-01 05:19:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-01-01 05:19:52 +0000 |
| commit | 7e7a6ec0336a376f59ad113b6dcb97c444b79fa4 (patch) | |
| tree | 57b2d7a5d9bd95ed8b84c876a1cb456074987d0b /lib/libc | |
| parent | 4bfba0cf194469a52e0325afc8dca5bc48232373 (diff) | |
| download | src-7e7a6ec0336a376f59ad113b6dcb97c444b79fa4.tar.gz src-7e7a6ec0336a376f59ad113b6dcb97c444b79fa4.zip | |
Make it a bit clearer that asprintf doesn't actually "return" a pointer in
the normal sense of the word, but does it through one of its arguments which
is a pointer to a pointer.
PR: 23717
Submitted by: phk
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=70553
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 index 5ea5163e31d3..308a1b49cafb 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 @@ -123,10 +123,9 @@ used to end output to strings). .Fn Asprintf and .Fn vasprintf -return a pointer to a buffer sufficiently large to hold the -string in the -.Fa ret -argument; +set +.Fa *ret +to be a pointer to a buffer sufficiently large to hold the formatted string. This pointer should be passed to .Xr free 3 to release the allocated storage when it is no longer needed. |