I have started a thread about this on the gcc help mailing list https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2014-10/msg00047.html We might consider replacinging memzero_explicit with memset_s() since that is in the C!! standard, albeit I think as optional. IBM, Apple, NetBSD, ... have that. https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2012/02/24/msg006125.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html