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Re: Software leaves encryption keys, passwords lying around in memory
Oct 31 2002 01:46AM
Pavel Kankovsky (peak argo troja mff cuni cz)
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> Yes, but here you *hope* the compiler has the same semantics for
> "volatile" that you do. [...]
A compiler eliminating accesses (both read and write) to volatile
variables is a broken compiler.
I am not sure about older standards but C99 says you canno...
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> Yes, but here you *hope* the compiler has the same semantics for
> "volatile" that you do. [...]
A compiler eliminating accesses (both read and write) to volatile
variables is a broken compiler.
I am not sure about older standards but C99 says you canno...
[ more ]