(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.63

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

diff --git a/original/man3/malloc.3 b/original/man3/malloc.3
index 372b503..7d2327f 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man3/malloc.3
+++ b/original/man3/malloc.3
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" Documented MALLOC_CHECK_, Wolfram Gloger (wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de)
 .\" 2007-09-15 mtk: added notes on malloc()'s use of sbrk() and mmap().
 .\"
-.TH MALLOC 3  2012-05-10 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH MALLOC 3  2013-12-12 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 malloc, free, calloc, realloc \- allocate and free dynamic memory
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ The
 .BR malloc ()
 and
 .BR calloc ()
-functions return a pointer to the allocated memory
-that is suitably aligned for any kind of variable.
+functions return a pointer to the allocated memory,
+which is suitably aligned for any built-in type.
 On error, these functions return NULL.
 NULL may also be returned by a successful call to
 .BR malloc ()
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ function returns no value.
 The
 .BR realloc ()
 function returns a pointer to the newly allocated memory, which is suitably
-aligned for any kind of variable and may be different from
+aligned for any built-in type and may be different from
 .IR ptr ,
 or NULL if the request fails.
 If