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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
+ *
+ * This file is part of nios2sim-ng.
+ *
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
+ * License. See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
+ * for more details.
+ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include "nios2sim-ng.h"
+#include "util.h"
+
+/**
+ * Allocate memory which is set to zero.
+ *
+ * @param size  requested size of memory in bytes
+ * @return      pointer to the allocated and zeroed memory on success, NULL on
+ *              error
+ */
+void *zalloc(const size_t size)
+{
+	void *ret = malloc(size);
+
+	if (likely(ret != NULL))
+		memset(ret, 0x00, size);
+	return ret;
+}