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diff --git a/lib/striconv.h b/lib/striconv.h
index dd75adef6..4509fd240 100644
--- a/lib/striconv.h
+++ b/lib/striconv.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* Charset conversion.
-   Copyright (C) 2001-2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2001-2004, 2006-2007, 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Written by Bruno Haible and Simon Josefsson.
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -35,14 +35,15 @@ extern "C" {
 /* Convert an entire string from one encoding to another, using iconv.
    The original string is at [SRC,...,SRC+SRCLEN-1].
    The conversion descriptor is passed as CD.
-   *RESULTP should initially contain NULL or a malloced memory block.
-   May change the size of the allocated memory block in *RESULTP, storing
-   its new address in *RESULTP and its new length in *LENGTHP.
+   *RESULTP and *LENGTH should initially be a scratch buffer and its size,
+   or *RESULTP can initially be NULL.
+   May erase the contents of the memory at *RESULTP.
    Return value: 0 if successful, otherwise -1 and errno set.
-   If successful, the resulting string is stored in *RESULTP and its length
-   in *LENGTHP.  */
+   If successful: The resulting string is stored in *RESULTP and its length
+   in *LENGTHP.  *RESULTP is set to a freshly allocated memory block, or is
+   unchanged if no dynamic memory allocation was necessary.  */
 extern int mem_cd_iconv (const char *src, size_t srclen, iconv_t cd,
-			 char **resultp, size_t *lengthp);
+                         char **resultp, size_t *lengthp);
 
 /* Convert an entire string from one encoding to another, using iconv.
    The original string is the NUL-terminated string starting at SRC.
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ extern char * str_cd_iconv (const char *src, iconv_t cd);
    Return value: the freshly allocated resulting NUL-terminated string if
    successful, otherwise NULL and errno set.  */
 extern char * str_iconv (const char *src,
-			 const char *from_codeset, const char *to_codeset);
+                         const char *from_codeset, const char *to_codeset);
 
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus