asprintf() issue

[Archie Cobbs]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> To me, this implies the original value is preserved.  We can add this to
> the documentation if that makes everyone happy.

Here's a proposed patch:

 manual/stdio.texi | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/manual/stdio.texi b/manual/stdio.texi
index e407170..bf7cffe 100644
--- a/manual/stdio.texi
+++ b/manual/stdio.texi
@@ -2551,6 +2551,8 @@ The return value is the number of characters
allocated for the buffer, or
 less than zero if an error occurred.  Usually this means that the buffer
 could not be allocated.

+If an error occurs, the contents of *@var{ptr} are not modified.
+
 Here is how to use @code{asprintf} to get the same result as the
 @code{snprintf} example, but more easily:


Thanks,
-Archie

-- 
Archie L. Cobbs