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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Did realloc ever zero the new memory?
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 09:45:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150913134539.GA25883@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150913121359.GA96351@cowbell.employees.org>

Derek Fawcus scripsit:

> 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.

+1

> So other folk from England should have no trouble :-)

Nor other Yanks.  :-)

That, of course, leads directly to the vexed question of how to pronounce
"char".  For me, it is "tcharr", for others "care".

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
        --Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"



  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-13 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-13  0:32 Doug McIlroy
2015-09-13  1:15 ` Larry McVoy
2015-09-13  6:09   ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-14  3:20     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-09-17  4:42       ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
2015-09-13  7:06   ` markus schnalke
2015-09-13 10:32     ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-13 11:06       ` markus schnalke
2015-09-13 12:13     ` Derek Fawcus
2015-09-13 13:45       ` John Cowan [this message]
2015-09-13  1:30 ` Random832
2015-09-13  2:29   ` Charles Anthony
     [not found] <1441931343.25526.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
2015-09-12  5:16 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-12  6:47   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-11 15:41 Norman Wilson
2015-09-11 16:44 ` scj
2015-09-10 19:52 David
2015-09-10 20:10 ` Jim Capp
2015-09-10 20:21   ` Larry McVoy
2015-09-10 20:22     ` David
2015-09-10 20:27       ` Larry McVoy
2015-09-10 20:29         ` David
2015-09-10 20:41     ` Clem Cole
2015-09-11  6:30       ` arnold
2015-09-11 14:36         ` Clem Cole
2015-09-11  0:13 ` Dave Horsfall

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