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diff --git a/xmalloc.h b/xmalloc.h
index e1865013..3766043d 100644
--- a/xmalloc.h
+++ b/xmalloc.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* xmalloc.h -- split out of fetchmail.h */
+/** \file xmalloc.h -- Declarations for the fail-on-OOM string functions */
 
 #ifndef XMALLOC_H
 #define XMALLOC_H
@@ -6,14 +6,24 @@
 #include "config.h"
 
 /* xmalloc.c */
-#if defined(HAVE_VOIDPOINTER)
-#define XMALLOCTYPE void
-#else
-#define XMALLOCTYPE char
-#endif
-XMALLOCTYPE *xmalloc(size_t);
-XMALLOCTYPE *xrealloc(/*@null@*/ XMALLOCTYPE *, size_t);
+
+/** Allocate \a n characters of memory, abort program on failure. */
+void *xmalloc(size_t n);
+
+/** Reallocate \a n characters of memory, abort program on failure. */
+void *xrealloc(/*@null@*/ void *, size_t n);
+
+/** Free memory at position \a p and set pointer \a p to NULL afterwards. */
 #define xfree(p) { if (p) { free(p); } (p) = 0; }
-char *xstrdup(const char *);
+
+/** Duplicate string \a src to a newly malloc()d memory region and return its
+ * pointer, abort program on failure. */
+char *xstrdup(const char *src);
+
+/** Duplicate at most the first \a n characters from \a src to a newly
+ * malloc()d memory region and NUL-terminate it, and return its pointer, abort
+ * program on failure. The memory size is the lesser of either the string
+ * length including NUL byte or n + 1. */
+char *xstrndup(const char *src, size_t n);
 
 #endif