Document aligned_alloc(3), and then say memalign(3) is equivalent, instead of the other way around. aligned_alloc(3) is the important one.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> --- man/man3/posix_memalign.3 | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/man3/posix_memalign.3 b/man/man3/posix_memalign.3 index 9c4a0bff9..4cf63d283 100644 --- a/man/man3/posix_memalign.3 +++ b/man/man3/posix_memalign.3 @@ -70,8 +70,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION .\" glibc does this: or a unique pointer value. .P -The obsolete function -.BR memalign () +.BR aligned_alloc () allocates .I size bytes and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. @@ -81,9 +80,10 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION .\" The behavior of memalign() for size==0 is as for posix_memalign() .\" but no standards govern this. .P -.BR aligned_alloc () +The obsolete function +.BR memalign () is the same as -.BR memalign (). +.BR aligned_alloc (). .P The obsolete function .BR valloc () -- 2.51.0
