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From: shields@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Paul Shields)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: What is setmem in Aztec's c.lib for?
Keywords: setmem
Message-ID: <21694@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 19 Feb 91 05:53:55 GMT
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Organization: York U. Computing Services
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alcaman@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Alexander Weidt) writes:
>  I desperatley need some documentation on the setmem function found in
>Aztec's c.lib. The function is documented NOWHERE, and i am at a loss of
>what to do.. 

Having a source license for Aztec 5.0d, I grepped through it looking
for setmem.  There is assembler source string/setmem.a68. Note that
the function is identical to memset(), the well-known ANSI C function,
except that the second and third parameters are reversed.  I suggest
you use memset() instead.  Here's a quote from the included doc:

; Synopsis
; void setmem(void *s, size_t n, inc c);
;
; Description
;   The setmem function copies the value of c (converted to an
; unsigned char) into each of the first n characters of the object
; pointed to by s.
; 
; Returns
;   The setmem function returns no value.

 
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