Re: catching unitialized structures

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Vijay Bellur <vbellur@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are a lot of places where we make an implicit assumption that
> GF_CALLOC and the likes memset the memory area to zero.

The problem I refer to is that on current Linux systems,
pthread_mutex_lock() will work on a zero'ed area where
pthread_mutex_init() was not called. That behavior should not be taken
for granted in the future on Linux, and it is likely to break on any non
Linux system.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
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