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From 624d3aebb6e6afadb4f35e894d11b5ebe290cd87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: christos <christos>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 11:47:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] avoid gcc-5 optimization malloc + memset = calloc
 (Fridolin Pokorny)

---
 tc.alloc.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tc.alloc.c b/tc.alloc.c
index b9aec63..c1cb330 100644
--- a/tc.alloc.c
+++ b/tc.alloc.c
@@ -348,10 +348,13 @@ calloc(size_t i, size_t j)
 {
 #ifndef lint
     char *cp;
+    size_t k;
 
     i *= j;
     cp = xmalloc(i);
-    memset(cp, 0, i);
+    /* Stop gcc 5.x from optimizing malloc+memset = calloc */
+    k = i;
+    memset(cp, 0, k);
 
     return ((memalign_t) cp);
 #else
-- 
2.5.5


From 05e7406049bd2686dee0ee8d819dcd38eb131f6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: christos <christos>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 12:24:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] make k volatile to prevent gcc-5 memset() optimization
 (Fridolin Pokorny)

---
 tc.alloc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tc.alloc.c b/tc.alloc.c
index c1cb330..f68a8c5 100644
--- a/tc.alloc.c
+++ b/tc.alloc.c
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ calloc(size_t i, size_t j)
 {
 #ifndef lint
     char *cp;
-    size_t k;
+    volatile size_t k;
 
     i *= j;
     cp = xmalloc(i);
-- 
2.5.5