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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Memset fails on Solaris Post 302922322 by DGPickett on Thursday 23rd of October 2014 05:08:52 PM
Old 10-23-2014
Might go haywire if called with n loaded from negative integer ( -1 = 0xFFFFFFFF )?
Code:
void *memset( void *dst, int c, size_t n ){
 
    char *d = dst;
 
    while ( n ) {
         --n ;
         *d  =  c  ;
         d++ ;
     }
 
     return dst;
 }

 

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BSTRING(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						BSTRING(3)

NAME
memccpy, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memmem, memmove, memset -- byte string operations LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h> void * memchr(const void *b, int c, size_t len); int memcmp(const void *b1, const void *b2, size_t len); void * memccpy(void *dst, const void *src, int c, size_t len); void * memcpy(void *dst, const void *src, size_t len); void * memmem(const void *block, size_t blen, const void *pat, size_t plen); void * memmove(void *dst, const void *src, size_t len); void * memset(void *b, int c, size_t len); DESCRIPTION
These functions operate on variable length strings of bytes. They do not check for terminating nul bytes as the routines listed in string(3) do. See the specific manual pages for more information. SEE ALSO
memccpy(3), memchr(3), memcmp(3), memcpy(3), memmem(3), memmove(3), memset(3) STANDARDS
The functions memchr(), memcmp(), memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() conform to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89''). HISTORY
The function memccpy() appeared in 4.3BSD. BSD
February 9, 2007 BSD
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