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albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) writes:
>>and gcc therefore "optimized" the memset() away.  And
>>while the following read from that memory (due to a buffer overflow)
> They should have checked what happens while optimising. Failing that
> they shouldn't have optimised.

The right way to do that in C is with a volatile cast.  Maybe Forth
could use something similar.