From: alainm AT news DOT RISQ DOT QC DOT CA (Alain Magloire)
Subject: Re: strset function
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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:37:53 GMT
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Malcolm (donald DOT mcleanNOdoSPAM AT talk21 DOT com DOT invalid) wrote:
: What does strset do ? I imagine it sets a string to all one
: character. This is easy to code

: int strset(char *str, int ch)
: {
:   char *first = str;

:   while(*str)
:     *str++ = (char) ch;
:   return str - first;
: }

Then, in that case you are better off with memset() which on most
OS/libc coded in assembly for speed.


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