Re: [Xen-devel] xzalloc() & Co?

[Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/09/2011 00:33, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> While I seem to recall that this idea was rejected a couple of years back,
> shouldn't we re-think and follow e.g. Linux in having zeroing variants of
> xmalloc() & Co? That would not only reduce code size, but also eliminate
> one source of potential bugs (see e.g. the thread starting at
> http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=131615631720174&w=2).

I don't know why we'd have rejected the idea. It sounds fine to me.

 -- Keir

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