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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5•se>
To: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc•navy.mil>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace xmalloc/memset(0) pairs with xcalloc
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:12:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EAEFAE.3010504@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48R7WYLSZ5lElWvJbfurso2ZPBQbzSCmtOgIsqTWyaA8yfW6Ndq1aA@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

Brandon Casey wrote:
> Many call sites immediately initialize allocated memory with zero after
> calling xmalloc. A single call to xcalloc can replace this two-call
> sequence.
> 

Nicely done. Apart from reducing LoC count, this is also a slight
optimization as we'll no longer bzero() memory handed to us directly
by the kernel (which is already nul'ed out).

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5•se
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      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-07  5:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-06 23:39 [PATCH] Replace xmalloc/memset(0) pairs with xcalloc Brandon Casey
2008-10-07  5:12 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]

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