10 Sep
2015
10 Sep
'15
10:27 p.m.
Good, glad to know it wasn't just me. I've finally let my team use it
but we avoided it when we supported more odd ball platforms.
On zero fill, I doubt many did that. Many really early on when memory
was small.
What you might be thinking of is modern systems implement malloc()
as an mmap of /dev/zero and the initial data comes through as zeroed.
But counting on that would be a mistake.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 01:22:33PM -0700, David wrote:
Buggy, sure.
Zero (less) filling, that is the question.
Realloc has had a difficult history, and I try to avoid it if at all possible.
David
> On Sep 10, 2015, at 1:21 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
> Am I the only one that remembers realloc() being buggy on some systems?
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