Re: memset as memzero

Arjan van de Ven
2007-09-22T18:47:30Z

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:33:55 +0400
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> could anyone tell me why there is no official memzero function (or
> macros) in the kernel.

it doesn't add value.... memset with a constant 0 is just as fast
(since the compiler knows it's 0) than any wrapper around it, and the
syntax around it is otherwise the same.

> 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.

my suggestion is to nuke all the macros and just use memset().