Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Oct 2005 14:07:48 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [MTD] kmalloc + memzero -> kzalloc conversion |
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On Sat, 1 October 2005 12:04:59 +0400, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote: > Deepak Saxena wrote: > >I see it more as an API usage cleanup then a "fix" of any sort. > > > Well, actually it may be helpful in only future, for example, if it is > known that the allocated memory is zero-filled already, memzero() may be > avoided at all.
Even today, kzalloc() takes less code than kmalloc() + memset(). Shrinks your binary size by a tiny amount.
Jörn
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