deo sharma wrote: > the question still remains that why we need a malloc when calooc will > don the same thing by inistialising the memory with zero rther than some > random value. > there are circumstances when zeroing out allocated memory is not required, so malloc is used. and these circumstances are when the allocated memory will be stuffed wil data as soon as it is allocated. So there is no need to zero out everything and waste memory cycles
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