From 6e0ef08f1fa9478f286b160292b6a23d93c08631 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tenari <djz24@case.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:23:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] tweak

---
 string_chunk.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/string_chunk.c b/string_chunk.c
index 5dcfe04..f3c3caf 100644
--- a/string_chunk.c
+++ b/string_chunk.c
@@ -48,9 +48,8 @@ fn String stringChunkToStringWithPadding(Arena* a, StringChunkList list, u32 ext
   String result = {
     .length = list.total_size,
     .capacity = cap,
-    .bytes = arenaAllocArray(a, u8, cap),
+    .bytes = arenaAllocZero(a, cap),
   };
-  MemoryZero(result.bytes, result.capacity);
   // copy the string bytes out of the StringChunkList into the correctly-sized String
   StringChunk* chunk = list.first;
   for (u32 i = 0; i < list.total_size; i++) {