malloc vs. calloc

[death_oclock]

I had forgotten about calloc for the longest time, but I was recently reminded of it. Now i'm curious, what would be the difference between malloc(numElems * elemSize); and calloc(numElems, elemSize); ? If my knowledge of arrays is correct, there shouldn't be any difference in the memory allocated.

[Rashakil Fol]

calloc initializes the memory with zero. calloc = clear + alloc

[Narue]

Conceptually, calloc works like this:

void *calloc ( size_t n, size_t size )
{
  void *mem = malloc ( n * size );

  memset ( mem, 0, n * size );

  return mem;
}

[death_oclock]

I see, thank you.