Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: FREE
Message-ID: <1990Mar1.140829.17199@druid.uucp>
Date: 1 Mar 90 14:08:29 GMT
References: <2714@stl.stc.co.uk> <1990Feb27.155133.20341@druid.uucp> <16055@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <16055@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>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.
>
I've heard that before but not the reason.  So why is it disrecommended?

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