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Article #37130Re: nullfilling
From: Daniel E. Wilson
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 21:56
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 21:56
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In article <8903010551.AA25974@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, U46050@UICVM.BITNET (JOHN ZAFIRIS) writes: > (people will think before writting code that > assumes what it shouldn't (blank mem) (yes, I know, K&R says this and > K&R says that... hooey! I don't like C anyway). Best of all, this is K&R say nothing about clearing memory. Only static variables are cleared and this is done by the compiler. What K&R say about memory allocated by malloc is that the contents are garbage and that it must be initialize by the programmer. Anyone programming in C that assumes that malloced memory is zero is making a very big mistake. Dan Wilson
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!tekchips!danw From: danw@tekchips.LABS.TEK.COM (Daniel E. Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: nullfilling Message-ID: <3701@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM> Date: 14 Mar 89 21:56:15 GMT References: <8903010551.AA25974@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: ftp@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM Lines: 14