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Re:Being Sneaky in C by jimjimjim on Saturday June 13, 2015 @01:06AM (#9709963)
cheat. after resetting the memory, copy the first and last bytes and log them out somewhere. that'll prevent any optimizations
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Re:Being Sneaky in C by TheLoneWolfling on Saturday June 13, 2015 @01:38AM (#9710027)
If only it were so simple. You underestimate the evilness of compilers.

The compiler can (and will!) just propagate the values through directly and skip the memset.

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