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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix readlink calls in GDB
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On 11/26/2012 04:33 PM, Pierre Muller wrote:

>   Thank you for the answers,
> I am sorry to have wasted your time :(
>   I didn't know calloc was zeroing data...

No problem.

>   Does that mean that
>    name2 = xzalloc (MAXPATHLEN);
> or
>    name2 = xcalloc (MAXPATHLEN, 1);
>
> 
> could have replaced the two lines:
>>   name2 = xmalloc (MAXPATHLEN);
>>   memset (name2, 0, MAXPATHLEN);

Yep.

-- 
Pedro Alves