Re:The cost of forsaking C
by Nursie on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:37AM
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In some cases you may wish to, yes. Particularly where it comes to things like explicitly zeroing memory before freeing it, something that has recently been addrezsed with memset_s
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That's exactly my point: when the compiler can decide not to do something you told it to you don't have full explicit control over everything. That's not a bad thing though - the compiler usually makes good decisions on your behalf. Usually.