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index ef032f8426..952083a805 100644
--- a/source4/lib/talloc/talloc.3.xml
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@@ -97,6 +97,15 @@
type checking.
</para>
</refsect2>
+ <refsect2><title>(typeof(ptr)) talloc_ptrtype(const void *ctx, ptr);</title>
+ <para>
+ The talloc_ptrtype() macro should be used when you have a pointer and
+ want to allocate memory to point at with this pointer. When compiling
+ with gcc >= 3 it is typesafe. Note this is a wrapper of talloc_size()
+ and talloc_get_name() will return the current location in the source file.
+ and not the type.
+ </para>
+ </refsect2>
<refsect2><title>int talloc_free(void *ptr);</title>
<para>
The talloc_free() function frees a piece of talloc memory, and
@@ -551,6 +560,15 @@ if (ptr) memcpy(ptr, p, strlen(p)+1);</programlisting>
size instead of a type.
</para>
</refsect2>
+ <refsect2><title>(typeof(ptr)) talloc_array_ptrtype(const void *ctx, ptr, uint_t count);</title>
+ <para>
+ The talloc_ptrtype() macro should be used when you have a pointer to an array
+ and want to allocate memory of an array to point at with this pointer. When compiling
+ with gcc >= 3 it is typesafe. Note this is a wrapper of talloc_array_size()
+ and talloc_get_name() will return the current location in the source file.
+ and not the type.
+ </para>
+ </refsect2>
<refsect2><title>void *talloc_realloc_fn(const void *ctx, void *ptr, size_t size)</title>
<para>
This is a non-macro version of talloc_realloc(), which is useful