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Subject:	Re: assembly code of the "strange error" - program
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Esa A E Peuha wrote:
> 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.

void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n);

Ahh, I get it. Even though the header specifies int, it really is a byte 
instead. This shows that sometimes you have to look at more than just 
the header.

-- 
Paul Wilkins

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