COTTRELL@BRL.ARPA, JAMES (08/08/85)
/* Doug Gwyn once wrote: > By the way, I would discourage using calloc() unless you are allocating > an array of (char)s and want them to all be NUL bytes. Since calloc() > cannot guess how you are intending to use the storage it allocates, > it is unable to fill it with the "right" type of 0 data. You will > normally be better off using malloc() and initializing the storage > yourself. Huh? What other kind of zero is there? Don't mention weird beasts like `tagged architectures' cuz then why would the arrays of chars be tagged right? Or do the quotes around `right' mean to ignore the whole message? I am no great fan of calloc over malloc however. jim cottrell@nbs */ ------
gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) (08/09/85)
> What other kind of zero is there?
How about 0.0?