diff --git a/share/man/man9/malloc.9 b/share/man/man9/malloc.9
index 66cd7e0eee65..dd4f7d36b009 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/malloc.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/malloc.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: malloc.9,v 1.31 2003/04/16 13:35:30 wiz Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: malloc.9,v 1.32 2003/06/19 15:11:49 yamt Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1996, 2003 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
 .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd January 31, 2003
+.Dd June 19, 2003
 .Dt MALLOC 9
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -141,12 +141,18 @@ The
 macro is intended to be used with a compile-time constant
 .Fa size
 so that the compiler can do constant folding.
-The
+In the comparison to
+.Fn malloc
+and
+.Fn free
+functions, the
 .Fn MALLOC
 and
 .Fn FREE
-macros may be faster for some fixed-size allocations, at the cost of
-increased code size.
+macros may be faster, at the cost of increased code size.
+There is no difference between the memory allocated with MALLOC and malloc.
+i.e., no matter which MALLOC or malloc is used to allocate the memory,
+either FREE or free can be used to free it.
 .Pp
 Unlike its standard C library counterpart
 .Pq Xr malloc 3 ,