[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Clean up MD5 code.

[Xavier]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 06:09:58PM -0400, Travis Willard wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:45:40 -0400
> "Dan McGee" <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Regarding the null byte thing- calloc zeros the memory, and while I
> > would assume that is the same as the null byte,
> 
> It is.  Setting the end of the string to '\0' (which == 0) is
> unnecessary - but it won't waste much CPU time and it prevents issues
> in the future (if it's ever changed from calloc to malloc again), so I
> don't see a problem with it being there.
> 

Right, fair enough ;)