On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 23:50, Steve Kargl <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:41:33PM +0300, Janne Blomqvist wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the attached patch replaces gfc_getmem with calls to xcalloc (from >> libiberty). Apart from reducing duplicated code, calloc is better than >> malloc + memset, as the allocator knows that the kernel always gives >> out zeroed pages so in some cases it can avoid memset'in the area. >> >> Regtested on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, Ok for trunk? >> > > OK.
Thanks; I'll commit it later today when I get home. > (I suppose we'll never have sizeof(char) != 1). Indeed, ISO C defines sizeof(char) == 1. See 6.5.3.4 (page 80) in n1256.pdf. -- Janne Blomqvist
