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Documentation update about Buffer initialization
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fixes #7230

Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#25591
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sarathms authored and jasnell committed Aug 4, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ It can be constructed in a variety of ways.

Allocates a new buffer of `size` octets. Note, `size` must be no more than
[kMaxLength](smalloc.html#smalloc_smalloc_kmaxlength). Otherwise, a `RangeError`
will be thrown here.
will be thrown here. Unlike `ArrayBuffers`, the underlying memory for buffers is not initialized. So the contents of a newly created `Buffer` is unknown. Use `buf.fill(0)`to initialize a buffer to zeroes.

### new Buffer(array)

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