Dear Wolfgang Denk,
Dear Marek Vasut,
In message 1339176514-13137-1-git-send-email-marex@denx.de you wrote:
-#define kzalloc(size, flags) calloc(size, 1) +#define kzalloc(size, flags) calloc(1, size)
Does this make any practical difference?
I mean, are you aware of any problem that gets fixed by this patch, or even any kind of performance degradation?
No, I just blindly found it out when I was enraged and was hacking on filesystem code.
"common/dlmalloc.src" says:
calloc(size_t unit, size_t quantity); Returns a pointer to quantity * unit bytes, with all locations set to zero.
Multiplication being commutative, I see zero effect in this patch?
Weeeeell, not in every algebraic system. It has zero effect, it's only about correctness [1]. Will applying this break anything?
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/calloc.html
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
Best regards, Marek Vasut