zeroing out memory

Question

gcc 4.4.4 C89

I am just wondering what most C programmers do when they want to zero out memory.

For example, I have a buffer of 1024 bytes. Sometimes I do this:<

Answer 1

I vastly prefer

char buffer[1024] = { 0 };

It's shorter, easier to read, and less error-prone. Only use memset on dynamically-allocated buffers, and then prefer calloc.