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Why don't we have a scm_gc_calloc, that is, a function delivering
cleared memory? That would make a lot of C init functions shorter, and
it makes for more robust code.


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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   hanwen@cs.uu.nl   |   http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen 

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