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Re: [PATCH] explicit_bzero final
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, joseph at codesourcery dot com, adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org, Wilco dot Dijkstra at arm dot com, fweimer at redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:58:29 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] explicit_bzero final
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- References: <20161212230622.14045-1-zackw@panix.com>
A couple of very minor nits in the documentation:
+Having said all that, in most situations, using @code{explicit_bzero}
Please remove second comma. Otherwise "in most situations" can be misread as
applying to "Having said all that".
by defining it to call memset() and then a second function,
...
+ intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
In the commit message and NEWS file, please use just 'memset' and not
'memset()', as the comments talk about the function, not about argument-free
calls to the function.