From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:12:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace xmalloc/memset(0) pairs with xcalloc
Message-ID: <48EAEFAE.3010504@op5.se>
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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