unitialized memory is all zeros...why not garbage instead?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 10), Mike Hunter said:
> I have a feeling that I'm missing something really obvious, but I'm
> having trouble understanding why the following program:
> 
> int main (int argc, char * argv[])
> {
> 	void * ptr = malloc(65536);
> 
> Never prints anything but "0"'s.

The kernel zeros out memory before handing it to processes.

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	Dan Nelson
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