[BusyBox] choice for reserving buffers

[Erik Andersen]

On Thu Jan 25, 2001 at 01:37:34PM +0200, Tomi Ollila wrote:
> > 
> > Only with set this memory. BSS is prezero - good for programing.
> 
> Btw how is this prezeroing done? 

The bss is zeroed by the binary loader in the kernel.

> Btw how is this prezeroing done? when new memory is demand allocated, the
> area is also zeroed at the same time? How does `calloc()' do this? the

calloc is essentially the following
    y=malloc(x);
    memset(y, 0, x);

 -Erik

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