Re:Being Sneaky in C
by ikeboy on Friday June 12, 2015 @04:52PM
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Why not generate random data then read it? Or even a constant, then read it?
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Re:Being Sneaky in C
by TheLoneWolfling on Friday June 12, 2015 @04:55PM
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Because the compiler will optimize it out. Even if you return the random data / constant the compiler will optimize out the store to the variable and just pass it through directly.