--- libev/ev.pod 2007/11/28 11:31:34 1.58 +++ libev/ev.pod 2007/11/28 17:32:24 1.59 @@ -165,13 +165,14 @@ See the description of C watchers for more info. -=item ev_set_allocator (void *(*cb)(void *ptr, size_t size)) +=item ev_set_allocator (void *(*cb)(void *ptr, long size)) -Sets the allocation function to use (the prototype and semantics are -identical to the realloc C function). It is used to allocate and free -memory (no surprises here). If it returns zero when memory needs to be -allocated, the library might abort or take some potentially destructive -action. The default is your system realloc function. +Sets the allocation function to use (the prototype is similar - the +semantics is identical - to the realloc C function). It is used to +allocate and free memory (no surprises here). If it returns zero when +memory needs to be allocated, the library might abort or take some +potentially destructive action. The default is your system realloc +function. You could override this function in high-availability programs to, say, free some memory if it cannot allocate memory, to use a special allocator,