Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:10:52 +0300 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc |
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Hi,
On Apr 6, 2005 3:15 PM, Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> wrote: > However "calloc" is the standard C interface for doing this, so it makes > some sense to use it here as well... :(
I initally submitted kcalloc() with just one parameter but Arjan wanted it to be similar to standard calloc() so we could check for overflows. I don't see any reason not to introduce kzalloc() for the common case you mentioned (as suggested by Denis).
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