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[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2016, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:

> Someone thought that writing zeroes to the memory allocated by some *alloc()
> call (in libc?) was unnecessary. Which call was it? Who was the proponent?

malloc was recently revised in GCC / libc to not expressly 
zero (a change in behaviour); calloc still zeroes

-- Russ herrold