Re: volatile malloc memory?

"Dan" <voids@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:4823fef1$0$1026$afc38c87@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> What is the correct way to allocate memory that is defined as volatile
so 
> that all standard compilers will not optomise out writes to the memory 
> that are never read again?
>
> I have some encryption programs that, depending on the 
> implementation/compiler, part of the code that clears memory at the end
of 
> the program gets optomised away.

ps. i tried some obvious stuff like specifing the character pointed to as 
volatile when assigning to it a value, but it still gets optomised away.