split bzero.c

Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/strings/explicit_bzero.c b/src/strings/explicit_bzero.c
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+/**
+ * slibc — Yet another C library
+ * Copyright © 2015  Mattias Andrée (maandree@member.fsf.org)
+ * 
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * 
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ * 
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+#include <strings.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+
+
+/**
+ * `memset`, except calls to it cannot be removed by the compiler.
+ */
+void* (*volatile __slibc_explicit_memset)(void*, int, size_t) = memset;
+
+
+
+/**
+ * Override a memory segment with zeroes.
+ * 
+ * Unlike `bzero` and `memset`, calls to this function
+ * cannot be removed, as an optimisation, by the compiler.
+ * 
+ * @param  segment  The memory segment to override.
+ * @param  size     The size of the memory segment.
+ */
+void explicit_bzero(void* segment, size_t size)
+{
+  __slibc_explicit_memset(segment, 0, size);
+}
+