Re: PR/50546 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/pmap

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/50546; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, dcb314%hotmail.com@localhost
Subject: Re: PR/50546 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/pmap
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 03:46:02 +0100

 On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:10:00AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR bin/50546; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 > 	dcb314%hotmail.com@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: PR/50546 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/pmap
 > Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 19:08:24 -0500
 > 
 >  On Dec 13, 11:50pm, joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) wrote:
 >  -- Subject: Re: PR/50546 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/pmap
 >  
 >  |  Please use calloc.
 >  
 >  I had it and reverted it, because it does not help since it does the multiply
 >  immediately to load the data so zeroing is just a waste.
 
 It still ensures the overflow protection. For any non-trivial size, the
 zeroing is likely already done by the kernel anyway.
 
 Joerg