Hello, looking at the patch it seems that the new function does 'malloc' and memset to zero of allocated space, am I right? If yes, this is different that the standard calloc prototype/behaviour. It is better to rename it to something else, to let the option open for adding an alternative to standard 'calloc'. I would suggest for example pkg_mallocz() -- ending z to indicate that the memory chunk is set to 0. Also, and alternative has to be added for shm manager. Your patch is only for pkg, but we have to keep the two coherent. There are some components where the memory functions are provided as parameter, and, a matter of need, they can be the ones for pkg or shm. Cheers, Daniel On 12/21/12 10:32 PM, Konstantin M. wrote: -- Daniel-Constantin Mierla - http://www.asipto.com http://twitter.com/#!/miconda - http://www.linkedin.com/in/miconda