Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions

[pg]

In a recent note, address@hidden said:

> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 07:57:16 -0500 (EST)
> 
> > * Lynx memset's to 0 'links' and 'history' in 'main' (their total size is 
> > ~85Kb). 
> >  IMO it's useless since unitiliazied data is always fill by zeros. May be 
> > this 
> 
> not true (I've gotten a few reports about this for non-Unix systems)
> 
In any case, be cautious about relying in this.  The ANSI spec contains
a warning to the effect that a memset() of overlying storage will
not necessarily set objects of all types to their zero values.

-- gil