On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:07 AM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2019-07-05 14:06, Thomas Munro wrote:
> > +#ifndef HAVE_EXPLICIT_BZERO
> > +#define explicit_bzero(b, len) memset(b, 0, len)
> > +#endif
> >
> > I noticed some other libraries use memset through a function pointer
> > or at least define a function the compiler can't see.
>
> I don't understand what you are getting at here.
Do we want to provide a replacement implementation that actually
prevents the compiler from generating no code in some circumstances?
Then I think we need at least a function defined in another
translation unit so the compiler can't see what it does, no?
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