Adding to the security part, there are also situations where compilers will opti...

mrweasel on Aug 1, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Can you trust a compiler to optimize your code?

Adding to the security part, there are also situations where compilers will optimize something, only to introduce security issues, hence the need to functions such as explicit_bzero (https://man.openbsd.org/explicit_bzero).

pests on Aug 2, 2023 [–]

Half of Linus rants are just about compiler bugs .