Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] manual/memory.texi: Bring aligned allocation docs up to date.

[OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:08:45AM +0000, Will Newton wrote:
> On 6 November 2013 16:33, Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > The current documentation suggests using memalign and valloc which
> > are now considered obsolete, so suggest using posix_memalign instead.
> > Also document the possible error return and errno values for memalign
> > and posix_memalign and improve documentation of __memalign_hook.
> >
> > ChangeLog:
> >
> > 2013-11-06  Will Newton  <will.newton@linaro.org>
> >
> >         * manual/memory.texi (Malloc Examples): Clarify default
> >         alignment documentation.  Suggest posix_memalign rather
> >         than memalign or valloc.
> >         (Aligned Memory Blocks): Remove suggestion to use memalign
> >         or valloc.  Remove obsolete comment about BSD.
> >         Document memalign errno values and mark the function obsolete.
> >         Document posix_memalign returned error codes.  Mark valloc
> >         as obsolete.  (Hooks for Malloc): __memalign_hook is also
> >         called for posix_memalign and valloc.
> >         (Summary of Malloc): Add posix_memalign to function summary.
> >         __memalign_hook is also called for posix_memalign and valloc.
> > ---
> >  manual/memory.texi | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> >  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> >  - Fix incorrect errno definitions
> 
> Ping?
> 

Looks ok,

A minor nit is that if we aim for completeness then pvalloc is currently
undocumented. It could be added as separate patch or should we keep it
undocumented?