[vlc-devel] Re: [PATCH] Allow configuration of JACK connections

[Jon Griffiths]

Hi,

> I don't understand the malloc=>calloc switch, but it seems fine to
> me. I'll try to compile it tonight.

The calloc() ensures that the structure members are null, so the
error handling code doesn't try to free any memory that hasn't been
allocated. An alternative would be to memset() the struct after
malloc(). I used calloc() since it's less code and its also used
elswhere in VLC.

Cheers
Jon





       
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