Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: Remove subsystem-specific malloc (1/8)
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       tiwai@suse.de
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On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:57:43PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > +void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, int flags)
> > +{
> > +	if (n != 0 && size > INT_MAX / n)
> > +		return NULL;
> > +
> > +	void *ret = kmalloc(n * size, flags);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		memset(ret, 0, n * size);
> > +	return ret;
> > +}

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:59, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> ok I like it ;)
> 
> only question is what n==0 means, might as well short-circuit that but it's
> optional 

Nah, I don't see the point. Now if I can only convince the ALSA guys to
switch to this... =)

		Pekka

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