Re: Is it safe to assume that ggc_cleared_alloc() return memory that has been zeroed ?

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To: William Tambe <tambewilliam@xxxxxxxxx>, gcc-help <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Is it safe to assume that ggc_cleared_alloc() return memory that has been zeroed ?
From: Jeff Law <law@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:12:38 -0600
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On 10/18/19 10:07 AM, William Tambe wrote:
> Is it safe to assume that ggc_cleared_alloc() return memory that has
> been zeroed ?
> 
Yes.  We'll call memset on the region to clear it.

jeff

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