alloca.3: Clarify that alloca(3)ted space is deallocated when the caller returns

Reported-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>

diff --git a/man/man3/alloca.3 b/man/man3/alloca.3
index 0d079ac1d865459d4cc8a2d091b94c4eaa3d7dd5..0099500f9e9736f67b7a2834008928e1257b9b53 100644 (file)
--- a/man/man3/alloca.3
+++ b/man/man3/alloca.3
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ The space allocated by
 is
 .I not
 automatically deallocated if the pointer that refers to it
-simply goes out of scope.
+simply goes out of scope;
+it is automatically deallocated when the caller function returns.
 .P
 Do not attempt to
 .BR free (3)