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What's really bad, is that freebsd could potentally change there  
behavor down the line.  Its probably dictated by the way kernel  
dezined, meaning they may do whats the cheapist.  I would.  If they do  
its go to lead to some weird behavior.  :-)

--James

On 10/05/03 21:42:23, Robert Huff wrote:
> 
> James Jacobsen writes:
> 
> >  It does not matter what freebsd does, C does not require that
> >  malloc initialize space according to Kernighan and Ritchie.
> 
> 	I knew that, and agree depending on a particular behavior is
> bad programming practice.  That said, there's a lot of "bad
> programmers" out there ....
> 
> 
> 				Robert Huff
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