https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69482
Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW
Last reconfirmed| |2016-01-26
CC| |rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org
Version|unknown |5.3.0
Ever confirmed|0 |1
--- Comment #1 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
Confirmed. It might be a non-issue as RTL expansion assigns 'x' to a register,
thus we only omit zeroing the respective register.
'x' is assigned a register because 'x' is not volatile qualified and register
sets in RTL are not "volatile".
As said, this is a non-issue for secure memset in practice - secure deletion
has to make sure to clobber all CPU registers as well (as well as possibly
used stack space that registers with sensitive information could have been
spilled to).
