Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libcrypt

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost said:
> the memset() is likely to get optimized away by the compiler anyway.
> It's a dead store after all.

It might be by luck, but a disassembly of MD5Final() on i386
shows that the final zeroing is present in the binary.
Generally I agree that we should make this kind of assignments
more explicit, so that we can implement it as macro if necessary.

best regards
Matthias



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