py, gc: Only zero out the extra bytes at the end of the heap chunk.

This is a small optimisation to zero out only the additional bytes that
the caller did not ask for.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/py/malloc.c b/py/malloc.c
index 76c3fe6ca..db2578d9a 100644
--- a/py/malloc.c
+++ b/py/malloc.c
@@ -88,13 +88,9 @@ void *m_malloc_with_finaliser(int num_bytes) {
 
 void *m_malloc0(int num_bytes) {
     void *ptr = m_malloc(num_bytes);
-#if MICROPY_ENABLE_GC
-    // the GC already zeros out all memory
-#else
     if (ptr != NULL) {
         memset(ptr, 0, num_bytes);
     }
-#endif
     return ptr;
 }