Have clear_mem just be a plain memset and only call the (slow)

zero_mem just before a deallocation where we are actually at risk of
the compiler eliding the writes.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/utils/mem_ops.h b/src/lib/utils/mem_ops.h
index be617ff19..05b2c22a5 100644
--- a/src/lib/utils/mem_ops.h
+++ b/src/lib/utils/mem_ops.h
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ BOTAN_DLL void zero_mem(void* ptr, size_t n);
 */
 template<typename T> inline void clear_mem(T* ptr, size_t n)
    {
-   zero_mem(ptr, sizeof(T)*n);
+   std::memset(ptr, 0, sizeof(T)*n);
    }
 
 /**