Stop Memsetting Structures

Re:Stop Memsetting Structures by mehrdadn on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:03PM (#19769056)

I don't think it is. It wouldn't make sense since memcpy is basically supposed to convert between arbitrary binary data.

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Re:Stop Memsetting Structures by saagarjha on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:12PM (#19769092)

From a practical point of view, yes, but I would be very surprised if the C standard had any accommodation for memcpy being a way to leak the value of a structure's padding.

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Re:Stop Memsetting Structures by jcr1488 on Sunday April 28, 2019 @05:23AM (#19770173)

You clearly haven't understood the thread.

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Re:Stop Memsetting Structures by saagarjha on Sunday April 28, 2019 @05:26AM (#19770180)

How so? Did I miss something important?

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