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Paul Wilkins wrote:


> 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, and as 
> U[] is also defined as INT there shouldn't be any trouble such as what 
> you speak of, no?

memset uses neither INT nor BYTE.  The second argument of memset is, in 
fact, of type int, but in a call like
   memset(buffer, c, size);
only the value (unsigned char)c is used.  The high-order bits, in an 
implementation where sizeof(int) > 1, are unused.