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-rw-r--r--src/lib/utils/os_utils.cpp5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/lib/utils/os_utils.cpp b/src/lib/utils/os_utils.cpp
index 6bebbab58..77be98dc6 100644
--- a/src/lib/utils/os_utils.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/utils/os_utils.cpp
@@ -54,13 +54,16 @@ void secure_scrub_memory(void* ptr, size_t n)
#elif defined(BOTAN_TARGET_OS_HAS_EXPLICIT_BZERO)
::explicit_bzero(ptr, n);
+#elif defined(BOTAN_TARGET_OS_HAS_EXPLICIT_MEMSET)
+ (void)::explicit_memset(ptr, 0, n);
+
#elif defined(BOTAN_USE_VOLATILE_MEMSET_FOR_ZERO) && (BOTAN_USE_VOLATILE_MEMSET_FOR_ZERO == 1)
/*
Call memset through a static volatile pointer, which the compiler
should not elide. This construct should be safe in conforming
compilers, but who knows. I did confirm that on x86-64 GCC 6.1 and
Clang 3.8 both create code that saves the memset address in the
- data segment and uncondtionally loads and jumps to that address.
+ data segment and unconditionally loads and jumps to that address.
*/
static void* (*const volatile memset_ptr)(void*, int, size_t) = std::memset;
(memset_ptr)(ptr, 0, n);