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From: "Dan Rosenberg" <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:18:08 +0000

> The code sample I linked to clearly demonstrates exactly how to
> accomplish this, if you had bothered to read it.

I told you why I didn't read it, if you had bothered to read my
reply properly :-)

Anyways, I realize we have to do something, but memset() is going
to completely kill performance.  I consider Eric's suggestion the
closest to acceptable cost at this point but even that is hard
to digest for me.