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Diffstat (limited to 'common/mischelp.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | common/mischelp.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/common/mischelp.c b/common/mischelp.c index 75ba60714..81dd501f8 100644 --- a/common/mischelp.c +++ b/common/mischelp.c @@ -49,6 +49,22 @@ #include "mischelp.h" +void +wipememory (void *ptr, size_t len) +{ +#if defined(HAVE_W32_SYSTEM) && defined(SecureZeroMemory) + SecureZeroMemory (ptr, len); +#elif defined(HAVE_EXPLICIT_BZERO) + explicit_bzero (ptr, len); +#else + /* Prevent compiler from optimizing away the call to memset by accessing + memset through volatile pointer. */ + static void *(*volatile memset_ptr)(void *, int, size_t) = (void *)memset; + memset_ptr (ptr, 0, len); +#endif +} + + /* Check whether the files NAME1 and NAME2 are identical. This is for example achieved by comparing the inode numbers of the files. */ int |