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[Michael Widenius <monty@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

>>>>> "Davi" == Davi Arnaut <davi@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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Davi> It's not well defined, that's one of the reasons why it was
Davi> deprecated. It does not even exist anymore in some systems,
Davi> POSIX.1-2008 removed the specification of bzero().

It's well defined in the sence that it works everywhere (at least for
MySQL code).

>> Better to always use the same code to reset memory than doing it many
>> different ways. In MySQL code bzero() has been the offical and
>> recommended way to reset memory.

Davi> Not anymore, Oracle MySQL has addressed this issue.

In MariaDB code that is still not the case.
Personally, I find bzero() easier to read, instead of memset() as
there is no extra parameter and it's also easier grep for it.

I assume you agree that for all particular purposes, there is no
reason to not use bzero() in MariaDB code?

Regards,
Monty