void *
tor_calloc_(size_t nmemb, size_t size DMALLOC_PARAMS)
{
- /* You may ask yourself, "wouldn't it be smart to use calloc instead of
- * malloc+memset? Perhaps libc's calloc knows some nifty optimization trick
- * we don't!" Indeed it does, but its optimizations are only a big win when
- * we're allocating something very big (it knows if it just got the memory
- * from the OS in a pre-zeroed state). We don't want to use tor_malloc_zero
- * for big stuff, so we don't bother with calloc. */
tor_assert(size_mul_check(nmemb, size));
return tor_malloc_zero_((nmemb * size) DMALLOC_FN_ARGS);
}