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* scm_gc_calloc?
@ 2002-08-04 15:37 Han-Wen
  2002-08-04 18:38 ` scm_gc_calloc? Rob Browning
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Han-Wen @ 2002-08-04 15:37 UTC (permalink / raw)



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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* Re: scm_gc_calloc?
  2002-08-04 15:37 scm_gc_calloc? Han-Wen
@ 2002-08-04 18:38 ` Rob Browning
  2002-08-05 18:19   ` scm_gc_calloc? Marius Vollmer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Rob Browning @ 2002-08-04 18:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: guile-devel

Han-Wen <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> writes:

> 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.

Sounds reasonable to me.

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* Re: scm_gc_calloc?
  2002-08-04 18:38 ` scm_gc_calloc? Rob Browning
@ 2002-08-05 18:19   ` Marius Vollmer
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Marius Vollmer @ 2002-08-05 18:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: hanwen, guile-devel

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:

> Han-Wen <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me.

Yep.

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