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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: FREE
Message-ID: <16055@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 28 Feb 90 20:08:22 GMT
References: <2714@stl.stc.co.uk> <1990Feb27.155133.20341@druid.uucp>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <1990Feb27.155133.20341@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>calloc does what you want and even initialize the space to zeroes for you.

The calloc() function is disrecommended.  Generally speaking, you should use
malloc() and initialize the contents yourself.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.ima.isc.com or harvard!ima!karl), The Walking Lint