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Re: More on in-memory zeroisation

Alan Barrett
Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:56:07 -0800

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Leichter, Jerry wrote:
> You can almost, but not quite, get the desired effect for memory zero-
> ization with "volatile".

I thought that this was guaranteed to work:

        volatile char buf[SIZE];
        /* ... do stuff with buf ... */
        memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));

--apb (Alan Barrett)

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