malloc() behavior (was: Pointer please)
James Jacobsen
james_jacobsen at lycos.co.uk
Sun Oct 5 22:21:33 PDT 2003
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:
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> James Jacobsen writes:
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> > It does not matter what freebsd does, C does not require that
> > malloc initialize space according to Kernighan and Ritchie.
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> 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 ....
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> Robert Huff
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