RFR: 8256256: UL should not use heap allocation for output string [v2]

[David Holmes]

On 2/12/2020 9:00 am, Ioi Lam wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 05:30:01 GMT, Yumin Qi <minqi at openjdk.org> wrote:
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>>> The calloc query has not been addressed.
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>> malloc/calloc return void* so need this cast.
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> calloc zero-fills the buffer. See https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/memory/calloc

Yes and the question was "why does it need to be zeroed?".

David

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> PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1246
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