From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] thornbird (another xscreensaver hack)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:45:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01f2f410a87bdcb97fa5d526846a8b7b@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
>I don't believe there is any requirement in the
>C standard (although I haven't checked) for the returned memory to
>be zeroed. A check of the 2 non-Plan 9 systems I have handy (Linux,
>Irix) show one will zero the memory and one won't.
Oops. I was confounded by the cursor control formatting when I
did 'man malloc' on the Linux system - it doesn't clear memory
either.
next reply other threads:[~2002-06-22 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-22 1:45 jmk [this message]
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2002-06-24 5:40 David Gordon Hogan
2002-06-24 0:51 okamoto
2002-06-22 12:39 Tiit Lankots
2002-06-21 23:02 jmk
2002-06-22 1:21 ` Mike Haertel
2002-06-21 22:57 David Gordon Hogan
2002-06-22 7:42 ` Fariborz Tavakkolian
2002-06-21 22:41 andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-21 22:37 jmk
2002-06-21 22:21 andrey mirtchovski
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