From: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] thornbird (another xscreensaver hack)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 18:21:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206220121.g5M1L8Wu022027@ducky.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9f6e71885e65d570f85eeebbaf4c13d@plan9.bell-labs.com>
>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.
The C standard specifically states that memory returned by malloc()
should be assumed to contain garbage.
Arguably any system library in which malloc() returns zeroed memory
should be considered broken in the sense that it may give people
the wrong expectation about the standard behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-22 1:21 UTC|newest]
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2002-06-21 23:02 jmk
2002-06-22 1:21 ` Mike Haertel [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
2002-06-22 1:45 jmk
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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