From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dfawcus+lists-tuhs@employees.org (Derek Fawcus) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 13:13:59 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Did realloc ever zero the new memory? In-Reply-To: <1Zb1NA-5he-00@marmaro.de> References: <201509130032.t8D0WvPl024634@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <20150913011501.GF2103@mcvoy.com> <1Zb1NA-5he-00@marmaro.de> Message-ID: <20150913121359.GA96351@cowbell.employees.org> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 09:06:48AM +0200, markus schnalke wrote: > Please note, that identifiers are usually remembered by sound > not by letter sequence. `zalloc' and `zealloc' are likely to > be pronounced similar While I'd pronounce zealloc as Zee-alloc; I'd not be inclined to pronounce zalloc that way, nor as Zed-alloc, but as Zal-loc (rhymes with Sal-loc). Maybe Larry had this pronounciation in mind? Similarly, I pronounce 'calloc' as Kal-loc not, See-alloc. So other folk from England should have no trouble :-) DF