authorgravatar for 178735591+87flowers@users.noreply.github.com87 <178735591+87flowers@users.noreply.github.com> 2025-06-15 13:29:15+01:00
committergravatar for alex@alexrp.comAlex Rønne Petersen <alex@alexrp.com> 2025-08-24 23:39:17+02:00
logbc00932bb2338c895d8cfd35914fccff336aaf39
treef2ed97ad35c0c8b70fafaa794d3bb6a5303fc4b7
parent5c0ad01d3c94bce1524333835ffae8831730eca3

lib: Reword documentation for realloc to clarify size

"byte size" is confusing. Clarify we mean number of items.

1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

lib/std/mem/Allocator.zig+3-1
......@@ -358,8 +358,10 @@ pub fn remap(self: Allocator, allocation: anytype, new_len: usize) t: {
358358 return mem.bytesAsSlice(T, new_memory);
359359}
360360
361/// This function requests a new byte size for an existing allocation, which
361/// This function requests a new size for an existing allocation, which
362362/// can be larger, smaller, or the same size as the old memory allocation.
363/// The result is an array of `new_n` items of the same type as the existing
364/// allocation.
363365///
364366/// If `new_n` is 0, this is the same as `free` and it always succeeds.
365367///