A patch for malloc typo

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sun Sep 24 12:00:00 GMT 2000


"H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> writes:

> This patch should have no impact on generated binaries. It just makes
> the code less confusing.

How can this have no impact?  All programs which use the memalign hook
will break since the documented order in which size and alignment are
passed is changed.  Admittedly I don't expect many programs to use
this feature but cleanup is no reason to break something.

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