On Friday, November 12, 2010 20:51:12 Graeme Russ wrote: > On 13/11/10 12:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > 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(). > > Hmm, U-Boot has a zalloc in lib/gunzip.c which does not zero memory
yes, that's why i said we should generalize things -mike
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