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Re:Tis-interpreter – find subtle bugs in programs written in... by woodman on Saturday April 09, 2016 @04:18AM (#11460467)
> C11 has memset_s

Annex K, so unfortunately that isn't widely available and unlikely to ever be. Also, there is a performance hit for where it is available [0].

[0] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1967.htm

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Re:Tis-interpreter – find subtle bugs in programs written in... by pjmlp on Saturday April 09, 2016 @07:17AM (#11460832)
Besides making it optional for C11, from security point of view they don't improve anything in C.

Programmers still need to track pointer and length parameters separately, leading to the usual set of memory corruption.

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