Removed unnecessary `memset()` in `read_file()`, and

replaced `malloc()` with `calloc()`.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 6b1da23..d2c0ea4 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ char *read_file(const char *filename, long *size) {
 	}
 
 	/* Allocate enough space for the entire file, plus one. */
-	buf = malloc(filesize+1);
+	buf = calloc(filesize+1, sizeof(char));
 
 	/* Return NULL, if the buffer wasn't allocated. */
 	if (buf == NULL) {
@@ -43,9 +43,6 @@ char *read_file(const char *filename, long *size) {
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	/* Zero out the buffer. */
-	memset(buf, 0, filesize+1);
-
 	/* Seek back to the start of the file. */
 	rewind(fp);
 	/* Read the entire file contents into the buffer. */