Hey everybody,

I have a feeling that I'm missing something really obvious, but I'm having
trouble understanding why the following program:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main (int argc, char * argv[])
{
        void * ptr = malloc(65536);
        size_t i;
        for (i = 0; i < 65536; i++)
        {
                printf ("%x", *((unsigned char *)ptr + i));
                if ((i % 16) == 0)
                {
                        puts("\n");
                }
        }
        return 0;
}

Never prints anything but "0"'s.

I ran less up to my hw.physmem by feeding it /dev/random and watching
top, and then ran the program, so I "know" there was tons of non-zero 
bits in memory.

I'm curious because I am worried about information leaks between processes
on the same machine...did somebody decide to solve this problem while I
wasn't paying attention?  :)

%gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728
%uname -a
FreeBSD mylabtop.berkeley.edu 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #1: Wed May
11 12:05:39 PDT 2005
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