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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tiwai@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: Remove subsystem-specific malloc (1/8)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:07:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1086815269.13026.76.camel@cherry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040609205944.GA21150@devserv.devel.redhat.com>

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:57:43PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > +void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, int flags)
> > +{
> > +	if (n != 0 && size > INT_MAX / n)
> > +		return NULL;
> > +
> > +	void *ret = kmalloc(n * size, flags);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		memset(ret, 0, n * size);
> > +	return ret;
> > +}

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:59, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> ok I like it ;)
> 
> only question is what n==0 means, might as well short-circuit that but it's
> optional 

Nah, I don't see the point. Now if I can only convince the ALSA guys to
switch to this... =)

		Pekka


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-09 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-08 21:24 [PATCH] ALSA: Remove subsystem-specific malloc (1/8) Pekka J Enberg
2004-06-09 18:34 ` Chris Wright
2004-06-09 20:13   ` Pekka Enberg
2004-06-09 20:21     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-09 20:40       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-06-09 20:57       ` Chris Wright
2004-06-09 20:57       ` Pekka Enberg
2004-06-09 20:59         ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-09 21:07           ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2004-06-11 10:09             ` Takashi Iwai
2004-06-11 10:43               ` Pekka J Enberg
2004-06-11 10:53               ` Pekka J Enberg
2004-06-09 21:00         ` [PATCH] " Chris Wright
2004-06-09 21:18           ` Pekka Enberg
2004-06-10  5:08         ` dean gaudet
2004-06-10 12:32           ` Dave Jones

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