On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 12:32 +0200, stefan kersten wrote:
at least on osx, calloc clears the allocated memory
lazily 'on-
demand' (see
[1]), which might not be what you want in a realtime application. i
don't know
how it behaves on linux, though.
Linux will even optimistically overcommit ... So manually "stepping" on
the memory you have malloc()'ed before use, is a pretty good idea,