Re: [PATCH] properly terminate linked link of dsos

[aep <aep@exys.org>]

clang optimized away the check in calloc.c to false.
I can work around it with a cast to something volatile:

diff --git a/src/malloc/calloc.c b/src/malloc/calloc.c
index 9d57456..22f2c01 100644
--- a/src/malloc/calloc.c
+++ b/src/malloc/calloc.c
@@ -13,8 +13,10 @@ void *calloc(size_t m, size_t n)
         n *= m;
         p = malloc(n);
         if (!p) return 0;
+
+    volatile long long dont_optimize_me = p;
         /* Only do this for non-mmapped chunks */
-       if (((size_t *)p)[-1] & 7) {
+       if (((size_t *)dont_optimize_me)[-1] & 7) {
                 /* Only write words that are not already zero */
                 m = (n + sizeof *z - 1)/sizeof *z;
                 for (z=p; m; m--, z++) if (*z) *z=0;