[softwarelist] Re: OvnPro 2.77 type 5 errors

In message <79cba21c50.Jo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Tytgat <John.Tytgat@xxxxxxxx> writes 
In message <4jgEhyBeezaJFw6c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:


There's a case to be made for filling all allocated memory with zero,
this hides bugs like the above or at least gives consistent results -
Windows does it for security reasons [...]


I don't think this is true.  You might think that's being the case when
running programs in debug mode but that's not happening in release mode.


What is not true?
Windows won't give your process new memory full of random data from another process because it is a security hazard.
I may well be wrong in the sense that malloc() the C language allocator can hand me memory I've used before and contains random data. But that's an issue internal to my program. 



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