Document the current behaviour with respect to the handling of errno.

Approved by:	phk
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Sheldon Hearn 1999-12-22 17:04:46 +00:00
parent 440b92f03f
commit b3c5295256

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@ -264,7 +264,10 @@ The
and
.Fn calloc
functions return a pointer to the allocated memory if successful; otherwise
a NULL pointer is returned.
a NULL pointer is returned and
.Va errno
is set to
.Er ENOMEM .
.Pp
The
.Fn realloc
@ -277,6 +280,10 @@ if successful; otherwise a NULL pointer is returned, in which case the
memory referenced by
.Fa ptr
is still available and intact.
In the case of memory allocation failure,
.Va errno
is set to
.Er ENOMEM .
.Pp
The
.Fn free