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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 +--- | This is the LINUX5250 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to LINUX5250@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to LINUX5250-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to LINUX5250-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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