Is malloc() or calloc() "better"?
Liber
nevin1 at ihlpb.ATT.COM
Fri Jan 6 11:10:20 AEST 1989
In article <46929 at yale-celray.yale.UUCP> ashcraft at yale-celray.UUCP (Cleve Ashcraft) writes:
|"zero-fills the area" how? for ints? floats? doubles?
It sets all the bits to 0.
|i've got in the habit of malloc'ing everything and then zeroing
|(appropriatly) the data if needed.
This usually leads to a more portable program, which is generally a good
thing.
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