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Remove incorrect comment about size; mention that the malloc ambiguity is

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part of the C standard.
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christos 2015-02-05 22:05:33 +00:00
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commit 0a0e590de3
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lib/libc/stdlib/reallocarray.3
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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $NetBSD: reallocarray.3,v 1.1 2015/02/05 20:02:28 christos Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: reallocarray.3,v 1.2 2015/02/05 22:05:33 christos Exp $
.\"
.Dd February 5, 2015
.Dt REALLOCARRAY 3
@ -84,17 +84,10 @@ functions by centralizing the overflow check in the multiplication of
and
.Fa size .
.Pp
Implementation issues prevent the function from being used correctly (a
.Dv 0
.Fa size
parameter will return
.Dv ENOMEM
in the
.Ox
implementation), while there are still portability issues (it does not solve
There are still portability issues (it does not solve
the
.Dv 0
sized allocation return ambiguity: does
sized allocation return ambiguity in the C standard: does
.Fn reallocarray
return
.Dv NULL
@ -104,7 +97,7 @@ mean that an error occurred, and can someone check
.Dv errno
in that case to find out what happened?).
.Pp
For those reasons
For this reason
.Nx
decided to go with an alternative implementation, and created
.Xr reallocarr 3 .