From: christos <christos>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 11:47:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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;
+    volatile 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