Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:36:34 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Cc: ache@astral.msk.su, Kai.Vorma@hut.fi, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tail dumps core Message-ID: <199510101836.LAA10827@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9510101735.AA10192@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Oct 10, 95 01:35:06 pm
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> > Why not use 'calloc' instead? bzero isn't portable way. > > Theoretically 'calloc' can do some internal optimization of zeroing. > > Neither of these are portable unless the array being cleared is > composed of characters. There is almost never any reason to use > calloc(3). I don't understand where you see a non-portability. Can you please explain? Thanks. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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