memset

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fill memory with a constant byte

Library functionsmanpages-dev 6.9.1-1

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

LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

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

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

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

Interface	Attribute	Value
memset ()	Thread safety	MT-Safe

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

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