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From: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Memset 0 in heap initialization?
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:14:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D01005D.4080409@googlemail.com> (raw)


In common/dlmalloc.c in the heap initialization mem_malloc_init() [1] 
it looks like the whole heap is initialized with zero:

memset((void *)mem_malloc_start, 0, size);

What's the reason for doing this? I know that the .bss segment has to 
be zeroed at system start up, but why doing this for the heap, too? It 
was my understanding that one could make no assumption about the 
initial content of memory returned by malloc() (?).

Sorry if I miss the obvious ;)

Thanks

Dirk

[1] 
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=common/dlmalloc.c;h=e9bab09b8eac7c0ec4900a3685f15a807b448c31;hb=refs/heads/master#l1529 

             reply	other threads:[~2010-12-09 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-09 16:14 Dirk Behme [this message]
2011-01-18  5:17 ` [U-Boot] Memset 0 in heap initialization? Dirk Behme
2011-01-18  5:55   ` Kumar Gala

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