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| author | 87 <178735591+87flowers@users.noreply.github.com> | 2025-06-15 13:29:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Alex Rønne Petersen <alex@alexrp.com> | 2025-08-24 23:39:17 +0200 |
| commit | bc00932bb2338c895d8cfd35914fccff336aaf39 (patch) | |
| tree | f2ed97ad35c0c8b70fafaa794d3bb6a5303fc4b7 /lib/std | |
| parent | 5c0ad01d3c94bce1524333835ffae8831730eca3 (diff) | |
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lib: Reword documentation for realloc to clarify size
"byte size" is confusing. Clarify we mean number of items.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/std')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/std/mem/Allocator.zig | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/std/mem/Allocator.zig b/lib/std/mem/Allocator.zig index b81a916702..897f1d2b31 100644 --- a/lib/std/mem/Allocator.zig +++ b/lib/std/mem/Allocator.zig @@ -358,8 +358,10 @@ pub fn remap(self: Allocator, allocation: anytype, new_len: usize) t: { return mem.bytesAsSlice(T, new_memory); } -/// This function requests a new byte size for an existing allocation, which +/// This function requests a new size for an existing allocation, which /// can be larger, smaller, or the same size as the old memory allocation. +/// The result is an array of `new_n` items of the same type as the existing +/// allocation. /// /// If `new_n` is 0, this is the same as `free` and it always succeeds. /// |