From: deo sharma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>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. Because you want to initialise it to a different value, and having it initialised twice is pointless? int i; void* DefaultValue = (void*)main; void* pPtrArray = malloc(10*sizeof(*pPtrArray)); for(i=0; i<10; ++i) pPtrArray[i] = DefaultValue; What gain does calloc() give you in this instance? Can you give any good reason why having it filled with 'all bits zero' when this isn't necessarily the 'Null Pointer' (with the associated extra overhead involved) is any better than gettting randomly filled memory with no overhead? -- PJH bug, n: An elusive creature living in a program that makes it incorrect. The activity of "debugging", or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed. - "Datamation", January 15, 1984 Alderley plc, Arnolds Field Estate, The Downs, Wickwar, Gloucestershire, GL12 8JD, UK Tel: +44(0)1454 294556 Fax: +44 (0)1454 299272 Website : www.alderley.com Sales : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service : [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and its contents are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the original recipient you have received it in error and any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. Should you receive this email in error please immediately notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for viruses, however you should always scan emails with your own systems prior to opening. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/EbFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To reply to this message, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Programmers-Town/post?act=reply&messageNum=4908 Please do not reply to this message via email. More information here: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/messages/messages-23.html <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Programmers-Town/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
