LDP: Update original to LDP v3.68

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man3 / alloca.3

diff --git a/original/man3/alloca.3 b/original/man3/alloca.3
index 0d593ed..be2449e 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man3/alloca.3
+++ b/original/man3/alloca.3
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 .\"     Various rewrites and additions (notes on longjmp() and SIGSEGV).
 .\"     Weaken warning against use of alloca() (as per Debian bug 461100).
 .\"
-.TH ALLOCA 3 2013-05-12 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ALLOCA 3 2013-10-07 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 alloca \- allocate memory that is automatically freed
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ The
 .BR alloca ()
 function returns a pointer to the beginning of the allocated space.
 If the allocation causes stack overflow, program behavior is undefined.
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR alloca ()
+function is thread-safe.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 This function is not in POSIX.1-2001.
 
@@ -116,7 +121,7 @@ option is given
 the header
 .I <alloca.h>
 is not included.
-Otherwise (without an \-ansi or \-std=c* option) the glibc version of
+Otherwise, (without an \-ansi or \-std=c* option) the glibc version of
 .I <stdlib.h>
 includes
 .I <alloca.h>
@@ -154,3 +159,12 @@ function arguments.
 .BR brk (2),
 .BR longjmp (3),
 .BR malloc (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.68 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.