[Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures
Jeff Darcy
jdarcy at redhat.com
Tue Apr 30 14:41:00 UTC 2013
On 04/30/2013 10:27 AM, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote:
>>>
>>> I did a quick scan of mem-pool.c but failed to notice anything
>>> obvious. If you
>>> happen to notice it again, it should be worth a patch.
>>
>>
>> Mem-pool does zero memory, but none of GF_CALLOC, GF_MALLOC, or
>> GF_REALLOC do. For example, GF_CALLOC just calls __gf_calloc which just
>> calls calloc.
>
> ??
>
> from TFM:
>
> The calloc() function allocates memory for an array of nmemb
> elements of size bytes each and returns a pointer to the allocated
> memory. The memory is set to zero.
Yes, but also from TFM:
>The malloc() function allocates size bytes and returns a pointer to the
>allocated memory. The memory is not initialized.
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