From 6d430cbd127b01170b4774c772ade33b0b665eba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Wakely Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 16:09:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify mt_allocator documentation w.r.t deallocation * doc/xml/manual/mt_allocator.xml: Clarify deallocation behaviour. * doc/html/*: Regenerate. From-SVN: r247742 --- libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ libstdc++-v3/doc/html/manual/mt_allocator_impl.html | 3 ++- libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/mt_allocator.xml | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog index 7e39c092e46..b5a67190e79 100644 --- a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog +++ b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2017-05-08 Jonathan Wakely + + * doc/xml/manual/mt_allocator.xml: Clarify deallocation behaviour. + * doc/html/*: Regenerate. + 2017-05-02 Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen PR libstdc++/69506 diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/doc/html/manual/mt_allocator_impl.html b/libstdc++-v3/doc/html/manual/mt_allocator_impl.html index 7b3379aa1d4..206d1a806ae 100644 --- a/libstdc++-v3/doc/html/manual/mt_allocator_impl.html +++ b/libstdc++-v3/doc/html/manual/mt_allocator_impl.html @@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ The _S_initialize() function: are grabbed from the global list to a thread specific list or when a thread decides to return some blocks to the global freelist.

Deallocation Notes

Notes about deallocation. This allocator does not explicitly -release memory. Because of this, memory debugging programs like +release memory back to the OS, but keeps its own freelists instead. +Because of this, memory debugging programs like valgrind or purify may notice leaks: sorry about this inconvenience. Operating systems will reclaim allocated memory at program termination anyway. If sidestepping this kind of noise is diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/mt_allocator.xml b/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/mt_allocator.xml index 12fe2ee3b64..3254bf88d2c 100644 --- a/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/mt_allocator.xml +++ b/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/mt_allocator.xml @@ -281,7 +281,8 @@ The _S_initialize() function: Notes about deallocation. This allocator does not explicitly -release memory. Because of this, memory debugging programs like +release memory back to the OS, but keeps its own freelists instead. +Because of this, memory debugging programs like valgrind or purify may notice leaks: sorry about this inconvenience. Operating systems will reclaim allocated memory at program termination anyway. If sidestepping this kind of noise is -- 2.30.2