
14 Jul
2004
14 Jul
'04
10:05 p.m.
In message 96A7A8B8A8ACBA4DAF7FD558BD32799BF56083@svex01001 you wrote:
Is there a (good) reason why the mem_alloc_init for ARM (and some other) targets zeroes out the malloc pool?
Paranoia?
BTW: the same is done on other architectures, too.
This seems very redundant to me. I removed the memset code and didn't run into any trouble so far, but maybe I was just lucky.
We do a lot of redundand things that help to improve styability ;-)
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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