Bernhard Voelker <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Do you think it's worth making things even more complicated > for overwriting a simple string? I mean, a simple > > for (char *c = xpwd; c; c++) > c = '\0'; > > would do, wouldn't it? Play around with this example: https://godbolt.org/g/SOSqt2 Compilers are pretty good at eliminated dead code as soon as you enable optimizations nowadays, it's actually not that easy. -- Aurélien Aptel / SUSE Labs Samba Team GPG: 1839 CB5F 9F5B FB9B AA97 8C99 03C8 A49B 521B D5D3 SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
