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		jimjimjim on June 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Being Sneaky in C cheat. after resetting the memory, copy the first and last bytes and log them out somewhere. that'll prevent any optimizations

TheLoneWolfling on June 13, 2015 [–]

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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