Re: 5250 Server Patch

[Mike Madore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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