[cfe-dev] Security fail (memset being optimized away)

[myLC@gmx.de via cfe-dev]

On Jan 3 8:31, Keane Erich wrote:
 > I believe that solution is able to be optimized out as well
 > (see the comment in the C99 solution).
 > memset_s (C11)  and SecureZeroMemory (MSVC) are the two
 > standards compliant ways that guarantee they won't be
 > optimized out.


It doesn't quench my curiosity, though. ;-)
What about other (your own) functions?

Isn't it a bug, if a compiler takes false assumptions on
volatiles? This would mean that it doesn't work, even though
it really should (which, of course, is of little help in the
real world).