From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Commit ecee9... (Program net device MAC addresses after initializing) breakage
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:11:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011122011.43105.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CDD1D3B.1080703@gmail.com>
On Friday, November 12, 2010 05:55:55 Graeme Russ wrote:
> On 10/11/10 14:36, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Saturday, November 06, 2010 18:13:08 Graeme Russ wrote:
> >> I saw discussion a little while ago regarding implementing a version of
> >> malloc that returns cleared memory - did this gain any traction?
> >
> > i dont think anyone posted a patch. it would make sense though to
> > generalize the zalloc() code since some places are already doing it.
>
> Actually, I think we should be using calloc() more than we are
if we want to define zalloc() to calloc(), then sure. but forcing people to
use calloc() with a size=1 is silly. the API is not nearly as obvious to
passing observers as zalloc().
-mike
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-06 22:13 [U-Boot] Commit ecee9... (Program net device MAC addresses after initializing) breakage Graeme Russ
2010-11-08 14:38 ` Kumar Gala
2010-11-10 3:36 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-11-12 10:55 ` Graeme Russ
2010-11-13 1:11 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2010-11-13 1:51 ` Graeme Russ
2010-11-13 2:20 ` Mike Frysinger
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