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/*
 * Copyright (C) 2014 Red Hat
 *
 * This file is part of GnuTLS.
 *
 * The GnuTLS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of
 * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
 *
 */

#ifdef TEST_SAFE_MEMSET
# include <string.h>
#else
# include <gnutls_int.h>
#endif

/*-
 * gnutls_memset:
 * @data: the memory to set
 * @c: the constant byte to fill the memory with
 * @n: the size of memory
 *
 * This function will operate similarly to memset(), but will
 * not be optimized out by the compiler.
 *
 * Returns: void.
 *
 * Since: 3.3.3
 -*/
void gnutls_memset(void *data, int c, size_t size)
{
	volatile unsigned volatile_zero = 0;
	volatile char *vdata = (volatile char*)data;

	/* This is based on a nice trick for safe memset,
	 * sent by David Jacobson in the openssl-dev mailing list.
	 */

	if (size > 0) {
		do {
			memset(data, c, size);
		} while(vdata[volatile_zero] != c);
	}
}

#ifdef TEST_SAFE_MEMSET
int main()
{
	char x[64];

	gnutls_memset(x, 0, sizeof(x));

	return 0;

}

#endif