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memset

NAME
LIBRARY
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ATTRIBUTES
STANDARDS
HISTORY
SEE ALSO

NAME

memset - fill memory with a constant byte

LIBRARY

Standard C library ( libc , -lc )

SYNOPSIS

#include <string.h>

void *memset(void s [. n ], 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

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes (7).

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STANDARDS

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY

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

SEE ALSO

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