[U-Boot] RFC: introduce malloc_cleared() ?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Reinhard Meyer,

In message <4CB6A110.6080101 at emk-elektronik.de> you wrote:
> 
> instead of adding or having the sequence of
> 
> malloc(), memset()
> 
> in all places where a definitely sane initialized structure
> is required it would make more sense to introduce a single
> function doing both. (The standard "calloc()" does not suit well
> here.) Overall that should even slightly decrease code size.

And why exactly does calloc() not fit?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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