https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56955
Paul Eggert <eggert at gnu dot org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |eggert at gnu dot org --- Comment #6 from Paul Eggert <eggert at gnu dot org> --- Created attachment 32831 --> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=32831&action=edit Clarify documentation for __attribute__ ((malloc)). This topic recently came up on the glibc mailing list and there's clearly a lot of confusion about it. See, for example, <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-05/msg00519.html>. Attaching a proposed patch to the documentation to try to help clear this up.