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[clang] Add comment about misleading alloc_size argument names (llvm#134899)
Attr.td names the first alloc_size argument "ElemSizeParam" and the
second optional argument "NumElemsParam"; but the semantics of how the
two-argument version is used in practice is the opposite of that.
glibc declares calloc() like this, so the second alloc_size argument is
the element size:
```
extern void *calloc (size_t __nmemb, size_t __size)
__THROW __attribute_malloc__ __attribute_alloc_size__ ((1, 2)) __wur;
```
The Linux kernel declares array allocation functions like
`kmalloc_array_noprof()` the same way.
Add a comment explaining that the names used inside clang are
misleading.
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