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Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions
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Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions |
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Mon, 29 Mar 1999 07:06:13 -0700 (MST) |
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
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- Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/03/29
- Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, David Combs, 1999/03/29
- Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, Vlad Harchev, 1999/03/30
- Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, dickey, 1999/03/29
- Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, Larry W. Virden, 1999/03/29
- Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, Larry W. Virden, 1999/03/29
- Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, Larry W. Virden, 1999/03/29
- Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, dickey, 1999/03/29