Hi,
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Scott Klement wrote:
>
> No problem... :)
>
> I don't know if this is of interest to you, but there is a calloc()
> which does zero out all of the bytes... its supposedly part of the ISO C
> standard, so perhaps it'd do what Linux does, but work across platforms?
I'm pretty sure it would be portable, but I think that the elements of
structures should be initialized explicitly. Otherwise I think I could
end up with some hard to find bugs. Even though the Linux version worked
properly, not initilizing the structure properly was still a bug in my
book. If we were using calloc we wouldn't have seen the bug show up on UW
and BSD.
Mike
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