On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Daniel Koepke wrote:
>Uhm, what's the point? calloc() is just malloc() that takes
>an extra parameter. They do (essentially) the same thing.
>
> data = (type *) calloc(sizeof(type), elements);
>
>is (again, essentially) the same as
>
> data = (type *) malloc(sizeof(type)*elements);
Except calloc zero's out the bytes.
The point is that you should use the CREATE macro so that you can change it
later if you want to do something, like say, log allocations.
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