malloc() behavior (was: Pointer please)

James Jacobsen james_jacobsen at lycos.co.uk
Sun Oct 5 22:29:34 PDT 2003


Man, I need to learn to spell.  :)

--James

On 10/05/03 22:20:42, James Jacobsen wrote:
> What's really bad, is that freebsd could potentally change there  
> behavor down the line.  Its probably dictated by the way kernel  
> dezined, meaning they may do whats the cheapist.  I would.  If they  
> do its go to lead to some weird behavior.  :-)
> 
> --James
> 
> On 10/05/03 21:42:23, Robert Huff wrote:
>> 
>> James Jacobsen writes:
>> 
>> >  It does not matter what freebsd does, C does not require that
>> >  malloc initialize space according to Kernighan and Ritchie.
>> 
>> 	I knew that, and agree depending on a particular behavior is
>> bad programming practice.  That said, there's a lot of "bad
>> programmers" out there ....
>> 
>> 
>> 				Robert Huff
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>
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