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cton
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Why does calloc exist? (2016)
Is calloc avoided for a good reason? Or is it something that people should be doing in most cases?
valleyer
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There is often a small amount of extra runtime cost to zero-initialize the buffer. Other than that, no reason other than inertia.
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it has two arguments
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