> But the compiler could know that the memory is zero, inline the check > and then optimize it out.
across compilation units? wow. Remember, I said that check_memset() goes in a separate file. I'd be scared to use such a compiler, although I'd hope volatile would prevent that level of optimizaiton. /r$ ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]