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>Number:         22675
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Function is gone, but the man page lingers on
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 07 17:20:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mike Meyer
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Meyer Consulting
>Environment:

System: FreeBSD guru.mired.org 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Nov 4 19:39:06 CST 2000 root@:/usr/obj/sharetmp/src/sys/GURU i386

>Description:

The cfree man page exists, claiming that cfree is an alias for
free. However, trying to use it generates link errors.

>How-To-Repeat:

Try compiling the following short C program:

	int main() {
	  cfree((char *) 0);
	}

and get:

bash-2.04$ cc test.c
test.c: In function `main':
test.c:2: `NULL' undeclared (first use in this function)
test.c:2: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
test.c:2: for each function it appears in.)

whereas using free() instead of cfree() works.

>Fix:

Delete the man page? Add cfree back to libc?

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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