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Name

memset - fill memory with a constant byte

Synopsis


#include <string.h>
void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n);

Description

The memset() function fills the first n bytes of the memory area pointed to by s with the constant byte c.

Return Value

The memset() function returns a pointer to the memory area s.

Attributes

Multithreading (see pthreads(7) )

The memset() function is thread-safe.

Conforming to

SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001.

See Also

bzero(3) , swab(3) , wmemset(3)

Colophon

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