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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/util/mallocvar.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/util/mallocvar.c b/lib/util/mallocvar.c index 05e2d4c4..339d5d61 100644 --- a/lib/util/mallocvar.c +++ b/lib/util/mallocvar.c @@ -86,9 +86,9 @@ pm_mallocarray2(void ** const resultP, of those rows. So a[row][col] gives you the element of the two dimensional array at Row 'row', Column 'col'. - Each array element is ideally aligned to an 'elementSize' boundary. - But we guarantee this only for 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16, due to limitations of - libc malloc() (which we use to allocate all the memory). + Each array element is ideally aligned to an 'elementSize' boundary. But we + guarantee this only for 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16, because of limitations of libc + malloc() (which we use to allocate all the memory). We tack on two extra elements to the end of the row index, transparent to the user, for use in memory management (in particular, in destroying the |