libexpr: Rely on Boehm returning zeroed memory in EvalState::allocEnv()

Boehm guarantees that memory returned by GC_malloc() is zeroed, so take
advantage of that.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/attr-set.cc b/src/libexpr/attr-set.cc
index 910428c02686..b284daa3c2f7 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/attr-set.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/attr-set.cc
@@ -7,13 +7,14 @@
 namespace nix {
 
 
+/* Note: Various places expect the allocated memory to be zeroed. */
 static void * allocBytes(size_t n)
 {
     void * p;
 #if HAVE_BOEHMGC
     p = GC_malloc(n);
 #else
-    p = malloc(n);
+    p = calloc(n, 1);
 #endif
     if (!p) throw std::bad_alloc();
     return p;