Re: printTable API (was: Show INHERIT in \du)

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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