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"C: all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language"

• beefhash 9y ago
  Not quite, unfortunately. In assembly language, you don't have to fear that your compiler optimizes out clearing cryptographic keys out of memory at the end of a function.
  • syrrim 9y ago
    In assembly, you don't have to worry about pesky optimizations speeding up your code at all. A similar effect can be achieved in C by not manually enabling optimizations.
    • dangerface 9y ago
      "A similar effect can be achieved in C by not manually enabling optimizations." Good luck with that.
  • mpweiher 9y ago
    Nor in K&R C. Or even early ANSI-C. This whole "we can use undefined behavior to "optimize" away half your program" idea is fairly new.