Xen devel - Sep 2011 - xzalloc() & Co?

While I seem to recall that this idea was rejected a couple of years back,
shouldn''t we re-think and follow e.g. Linux in having zeroing variants
of
xmalloc() & Co? That would not only reduce code size, but also eliminate
one source of potential bugs (see e.g. the thread starting at
http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=131615631720174&w=2).

Jan


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On 21/09/2011 00:33, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> While I seem to recall that this idea was rejected a couple of years back,
> shouldn''t we re-think and follow e.g. Linux in having zeroing
variants of
> xmalloc() & Co? That would not only reduce code size, but also
eliminate
> one source of potential bugs (see e.g. the thread starting at
> http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=131615631720174&w=2).
I don''t know why we''d have rejected the idea. It sounds fine
to me.

 -- Keir
> Jan
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