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Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:33:55 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: memset as memzero
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Hi list,

could anyone tell me why there is no official memzero function (or macros) in
the kernel. As I see a lot of  kernel parts calls for it (defying own macros
as alias to memset). Maybe there is a special reason not to do so? Actually
my suggestion is to define _one_ general macros for this.

		Cyrill