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From:	Esa A E Peuha <esa DOT peuha AT helsinki DOT fi>
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Subject:	Re: assembly code of the "strange error" - program
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Paul Wilkins <disk AT paradise DOT net DOT nz> writes:

> As I'm expecting memset to accept ints in the middle value there should 
> be no difference.

It _does_ accept ints as the value.  However, it only uses the least
significant byte of that value.

> I could've sworn that memset used INT, not BYTE, for the middle element, 
> so memset would fill the memory range with the integer number 4,

It will not.

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Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
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