Renamed _calloc() to zalloc(), ready to be used as a standalone function.

[gpxe.git] / src / core / malloc.c

diff --git a/src/core/malloc.c b/src/core/malloc.c
index 6dfdd63..bf94592 100644 (file)
--- a/src/core/malloc.c
+++ b/src/core/malloc.c
@@ -311,8 +311,11 @@ void free ( void *ptr ) {
  * @ret ptr            Allocated memory
  *
  * Allocate memory as per malloc(), and zero it.
  * @ret ptr            Allocated memory
  *
  * Allocate memory as per malloc(), and zero it.

+ *
+ * This function name is non-standard, but pretty intuitive.
+ * zalloc(size) is always equivalent to calloc(1,size)

  */
  */

-void * _calloc ( size_t size ) {
+void * zalloc ( size_t size ) {

        void *data;
 
        data = malloc ( size );
        void *data;
 
        data = malloc ( size );