Is malloc() or calloc() "better"?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <gables.416 at umigw.miami.edu>, slores%gables.span at umigw.miami.edu (Stanislaw L. Olejniczak) writes:
> It seems to me that most programmers, in giving examples here, use malloc()
> instead of calloc().  It seems to me that, with the headache I always get
> thinking of C strings, calloc would be a more common procedure.  Would someone
> please enlighten me why is malloc so much more popular?

Kind of a waste to clear out the memory when you're just about to overwrite
it anyway.
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