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To: Kevin <krugman AT nospam DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:59:59 MET
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Subject:       Re: What's wrong with this code snippet ?
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On 17 Oct 99 at 12:12, Kevin wrote:
> Subject:        What's wrong with this code snippet ?
> this doesn't set any of the kill list elements to 999,
> when I look at them, they appear to have been set to
> some unfeasably large negative number.
if that "unfeasably large negative number" is -404232217, than the reason 
may be the memset function being "byte-based", ie. setting num bytes 
(~unsigned chars) in buffer to ch & 0xff.
void *memset(void *buffer, int ch, size_t num);

yours, K.

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Koteles, Karoly
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University
Dept. of Physiology
Szeged, HUNGARY
koteles AT phys DOT szote DOT u-szeged DOT hu