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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 index 65173cf..8b8eafb 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 @@ -223,7 +223,9 @@ This option is incompatible with the option. .It X Rather than return failure for any allocation function, -display a diagnostic message on stderr and cause the program to drop +display a diagnostic message on +.Dv stderr +and cause the program to drop core (using .Xr abort 3 ) . This option should be set at compile time by including the following in @@ -390,7 +392,9 @@ The .Va _malloc_message variable allows the programmer to override the function which emits the text strings forming the errors and warnings if for some reason -the stderr filedescriptor is not suitable for this. +the +.Dv stderr +file descriptor is not suitable for this. Please note that doing anything which tries to allocate memory in this function will assure death of the process. .Pp |
