> Also, many C programmers (in my experience) don't use calloc -- they just use malloc, and then they initialize the memory. The basic danger is that you forget

> Also, many C programmers (in my experience) don't use calloc -- they just use malloc, and then they initialize the memory. The basic danger is that you forget to initialize part of it, I don't know about the latter part of your statement being true or not. The former is due to looping usage so it's better to do bzero as the first operation for use instead of the last for reuse. In other words, don't do the same functionality in two separate areas.