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To: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.berkeley.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: unitialized memory is all zeros...why not garbage instead?
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At 3:40 PM -0700 6/10/05, Mike Hunter wrote:
>Hey everybody,
>
>I have a feeling that I'm missing something really obvious, but
>I'm having trouble understanding why the following program:


>Never prints anything but "0"'s.

Kernel generally clears out memory in the background.  See also
the man page for 'malloc', which will describe some options
that you can set by creating an appropriate symlink at
/etc/malloc.conf.  In particular, the -J flag.

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