On Friday, November 12, 2010 05:55:55 Graeme Russ wrote:
> On 10/11/10 14:36, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Saturday, November 06, 2010 18:13:08 Graeme Russ wrote:
> >> I saw discussion a little while ago regarding implementing a version of
> >> malloc that returns cleared memory - did this gain any traction?
> > 
> > i dont think anyone posted a patch.  it would make sense though to
> > generalize the zalloc() code since some places are already doing it.
> 
> Actually, I think we should be using calloc() more than we are

if we want to define zalloc() to calloc(), then sure.  but forcing people to 
use calloc() with a size=1 is silly.  the API is not nearly as obvious to 
passing observers as zalloc().
-mike

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