/*******************************************************************************

    Copyright(C) Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 2011, 2012, 2014.

    This file is part of the Sortix C Library.

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    it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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    string/explicit_bzero.c
    Initializes a region of memory to a byte value in a manner that is not
    optimized away by the compiler.

*******************************************************************************/

#include <string.h>

// TODO: Employ special compiler support to ensure this is not optimized away.
void explicit_bzero(void* dest_ptr, size_t size)
{
	volatile unsigned char* dest = (volatile unsigned char*) dest_ptr;
	for ( size_t i = 0; i < size; i++ )
		dest[i] = 0;
}