[RFC] [PATCH] Support explicit_bzero, memset_s, memzero_explicit, or similar.

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Wed Dec 17 13:19:00 GMT 2014


Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:

> Curiously, this is the case where use of memset_s would *force* the
> creation of a copy of the value, just so that it can be zapped
> immediately:

Rather it stops the copy from being elided.

Andreas.

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