Colin Percival personal blog
How to zero a buffer
Now, we don't want to truly change the observable behaviour of our software — but fortunately the C standard has a more liberal concept of "observable" than most people. In particular, the C standard states that the observable behaviour includes accesses to volatile objects . What is a volatile object, you ask? It is…
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Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2014
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Sep 4, 2014 | How to zero a buffer by cperciva | 277 | 208 |
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