setmem

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Header File

mem.h

Category

Memory and String Manipulation Routines

Prototype

void setmem(void *dest, unsigned length, char value);

Description

Assigns a value to a range of memory.

setmem sets a block of length bytes, pointed to by dest, to the byte value.

Return Value

None.

Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <alloc.h>
#include <mem.h>
int main(void)
{
   char *dest;
   dest = (char *) calloc(21, sizeof(char));
   setmem(dest, 20, 'c');
   printf("%s\n", dest);
   return 0;
}

Portability

POSIX	Win32	ANSI C	ANSI C++
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