Hi! >>>>> "Davi" == Davi Arnaut <d...@twitter.com> writes:
<cut> Davi> It's not well defined, that's one of the reasons why it was Davi> deprecated. It does not even exist anymore in some systems, Davi> POSIX.1-2008 removed the specification of bzero(). It's well defined in the sence that it works everywhere (at least for MySQL code). >> Better to always use the same code to reset memory than doing it many >> different ways. In MySQL code bzero() has been the offical and >> recommended way to reset memory. Davi> Not anymore, Oracle MySQL has addressed this issue. In MariaDB code that is still not the case. Personally, I find bzero() easier to read, instead of memset() as there is no extra parameter and it's also easier grep for it. I assume you agree that for all particular purposes, there is no reason to not use bzero() in MariaDB code? Regards, Monty _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
