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Date:      Sat, 4 Apr 2015 13:02:10 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Cc:        svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable-10@freebsd.org, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r279877 - stable/10/sys/boot/fdt
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On 4 April 2015 at 02:17, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote:
> 2015-04-04 11:16 GMT+02:00 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>:
>> Couldn't this use calloc() instead?
>
> Oh, wait. This is the boot loader. The boot loader wouldn't
> necessarily have a calloc() function.


.. why not? Wouldn't it be worth the code savings to have calloc
versus malloc + bzero everywhere?


-adrian



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