Passwords can sit on disk for years

[Rich Salz]

> What?  No compiler is smart enough to say, "The program
> sets these variables but they are never referenced again.
> I'll save time and not set them."

Given the semantics of C pointers, and multiple compilation units, the
answer to your question is "probably not in non-research use."
	/r$
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