Tim van der Molen <[email protected]> wrote: > Philipp Klaus Krause (2020-08-10 21:00 +0200): > > Am 10.08.20 um 17:00 schrieb Theo de Raadt: > > > Philipp Klaus Krause <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> OpenBSD has the explicit_bzero function to reliably (i.e. even if not > > >> observable in the C abstract machine) overwrite memory with zeroes. > > >> > > >> WG14 is currently considering adding similar functionality to C2X. > > > > > > Then perhaps in the interests of the public they should use the same > > > name, but I suspect they won't. > > > > The functionality (i.e. some way to reliably overwrite memory) already > > exists under different names: explicit_bzero in OpenBSD, > > explicit_bzero is also in glibc, musl, FreeBSD and DragonFly.
And pervasively used. debian code search can review the situation. Will people need additional #ifdef's to use the new officially sanctioned API? To me, that seems utterly stupid.
