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2006/6/20, Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com>:
> * Alright, it doesn't zero, as such, but will (again, unless
> I've misunderstood the malloc(3) man page) initialise each byte
> to 0xd0

There's "Z" malloc option that's used to initialise page with zeros
instead of 0xd0