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Re: [dpb@infoseek.com] libc/855: calloc returns non-zeroed memory
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- Subject: Re: [dpb@infoseek.com] libc/855: calloc returns non-zeroed memory
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 04 Nov 1998 12:07:39 -0800
- Cc: dpb@infoseek.com
- References: <u8btmo2ced.fsf@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> <19981104171724.18607.qmail@md.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
> This is a rather critical malloc bug: multi-threaded (and only
> multi-threaded) programs sometimes get non-zeroed memory from
> calloc().
Wolfram, thanks for the quick fix. It's in 2.0 and 2.1 now.
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