Geoffrey Irving schrieb: > A thought that occurred to me after the discussion of array > initialization: allowing user access to uninitialized memory opens a > security hole. It would become possible to read passwords or other > sensitive data out of the "uninitialized" memory, which would rule out > the use of BitC for intraprocess access control setups. I think this > is more than enough to kill the idea of an uninitialized allocation > primitive. > > Geoffrey
Since you want the zeroing done for security reasons: Wouldn't it make much more sense to zero upon deallocation? Philipp _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
