On Tuesday, 9 September 2014 at 18:59:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
1. The compiler has -gx, which will "stomp" the stack upon
function return.
2. A "volatileMemset" should be added to druntime, per 10661
3. A function, say, "clearRegisters" should be added to
druntime that zeros out all scratch registers.
I know the ycombinator article says that is insufficient, but
these are still things that people are going to ask for and we
should provide.
Just to be clear, I don't disagree that this can be useful for
certain applications. I just wanted to point out that what we
were discussing something in 10661 is different from what the
linked article discusses.
David
