I have a query about the fl_calloc() routine. Does it intialise
allocated memory to zeroes like calloc? I can't find this documented
in the manual though I could have missed it.
Why he wants to know this:
I'm using a fdesign'ed form which has many similar xyplots, and have
used the facility to name these objects as elements of an array -
which greatly simplifies my programming. Now the array indeces chosen
are related to other parts of my data and in fact are not a completely
contiguous set - so there may not be an object xyp[4] ever created on
the form, although xyp[3] and xyp[5] are.
In a callback I want to loop through the array of these xyplots making
adjustments, but need to identify those which are missing. I'd like to
be able to assume that a non-existent object will simply have a null
pointer, but since it isn't explicitly initialised by fdesign's
outputted create_form_???() it all depends on how the memory allocated
to the FD_?? structure by this create_form_??? is initialised. It
apparently uses fl_calloc to do this. So can I safely assume that this
structure is zeroed at creation, on all machines in all current and
future versions of the forms library?
Ivan
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