Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace xmalloc/memset(0) pairs with xcalloc

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:12:14 +0200

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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