Comment 16 for bug 1123588

A common convention in Upstart+NIH is for functions to accept a parent pointer as in the following example:

Foo *make_foo (const void *parent) __attribute__ ((malloc));

Foo *
make_foo (const void *parent)
{
 Foo *foo = nih_new (parent, Foo);

        /* ... */

 return foo;
}

But, if I'm understanding this correctly (?), using the malloc attribute here is also invalid iff parent != NULL since nih_new() ultimately saves the value of foo to the parents context before returning the address of foo.