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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/nimc.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | web/news.txt | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/nimc.txt b/doc/nimc.txt index e7cb57037..48dbaeb21 100644 --- a/doc/nimc.txt +++ b/doc/nimc.txt @@ -243,7 +243,9 @@ Define Effect ``useFork`` Makes ``osproc`` use ``fork`` instead of ``posix_spawn``. ``useNimRtl`` Compile and link against ``nimrtl.dll``. ``useMalloc`` Makes Nim use C's `malloc`:idx: instead of Nim's - own memory manager. This only works with ``gc:none``. + own memory manager, ableit prefixing each allocation with + its size to support clearing memory on reallocation. + This only works with ``gc:none``. ``useRealtimeGC`` Enables support of Nim's GC for *soft* realtime systems. See the documentation of the `gc <gc.html>`_ for further information. diff --git a/web/news.txt b/web/news.txt index e818ed66e..f0f17448f 100644 --- a/web/news.txt +++ b/web/news.txt @@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ Changes affecting backwards compatibility new experimental ``this`` pragma to achieve a similar effect to what the old ``using`` statement tried to achieve. - Typeless parameters have been removed from the language since it would clash with ``using``. - +- When using ``useMalloc``, an additional header containing the size of the + allocation will be allocated, to support zeroing memory on realloc as expected + by the language. With this change, ``alloc`` and ``dealloc`` are no longer + aliases for ``malloc`` and ``free`` - use ``c_malloc`` and ``c_free`` if + you need that. Library Additions ----------------- |