Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add nmalloc, NMALLOC et al.

[Ondřej Bílka]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 12:27:57PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 01:13:35PM +0100, Ondřej Bílka wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > For syncing with libc refactoring of malloc following patch adds for
> > consistency nmalloc variants.
> > 
> > These will make overflow checking of common allocations automatic as in
> > next patch.
> > 
> >     * lib/xalloc.h (NMALLOC, NREALLOC, nmalloc, nrealloc): Add.
> 
> Is nmalloc a standard (or proposed standard)?  It's not in glibc and
> various web searches don't turn up much.
>
No, they are primary for internal use.