[Bug middle-end/60092] posix_memalign not recognized to derive alias and alignment info
jakub at gcc dot gnu.org
gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Thu Feb 6 14:08:00 GMT 2014
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60092
--- Comment #10 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to rguenther@suse.de from comment #9)
> Ok, my manpage says
>
> RETURN VALUE
> aligned_alloc(), memalign(), valloc(), and pvalloc() return a
> pointer
> to the allocated memory, or NULL if the request fails.
>
> posix_memalign() returns zero on success, or one of the error
> values
> listed in the next section on failure. Note that errno is not set.
>
> so that must be incorrect.
>
> If the value of errno is undefined after posix_memalign that doesn't
> help us as we then still cannot CSE.
Linux man pages are often incorrect, better look at the 3p ones ;).
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