Hi tech@
The arguments to malloc() in the EXAMPLE section are not consistent.
Make a couple other consistency fixes as well.
Index: malloc.3
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RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3,v
retrieving revision 1.108
diff -u -p -r1.108 malloc.3
--- malloc.3 29 Mar 2017 17:38:37 -0000 1.108
+++ malloc.3 6 Apr 2017 03:18:49 -0000
@@ -177,9 +177,9 @@ is set to
.Er ENOMEM .
.Pp
If
-.Fa size
-or
.Fa nmemb
+or
+.Fa size
is equal to 0, a unique pointer to an access protected,
zero sized object is returned.
Access via this pointer will generate a
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ size_t num, size;
if (size && num > SIZE_MAX / size)
errc(1, EOVERFLOW, "overflow");
-if ((p = malloc(size * num)) == NULL)
+if ((p = malloc(num * size)) == NULL)
err(1, NULL);
.Ed
.Pp
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ if (size < 0 || num < 0)
if (size && num > INT_MAX / size)
errc(1, EOVERFLOW, "overflow");
-if ((p = malloc(size * num)) == NULL)
+if ((p = malloc(num * size)) == NULL)
err(1, NULL);
.Ed
.Pp
@@ -471,9 +471,9 @@ functions conform to
.St -ansiC .
.Pp
If
-.Fa size
-or
.Fa nmemb
+or
+.Fa size
are 0, the return value is implementation defined;
other conforming implementations may return
.Dv NULL
