Brendan Jurd wrote:
> 1. describe malloc's the cells to zero, but print just does a local
> calloc without any initialisation.
Um, calloc is the same as malloc + zero. Those two seem identical to me.
> 2. describe only does an mbvalidate for WIN32, but print does it in all cases.
There's this comment in describe.c:
> /*
> * mbvalidate() is used in function describeOneTableDetails() to make sure
> * all characters of the cells will be printed to the DOS console in a
> * correct way
> */
I don't know what that's about. Perhaps there's something in the archives...
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