From: Kevin <krugman AT nospam DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: What's wrong with this code snippet ?
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 12:12:02 +0100
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Hi all.

yet another dumb question, but I can't seem to spot 
where I'm going wrong.



const int NUM_TILES = 320;  // This is global

int kill_list[NUM_TILES];   // This isn't

empty_kill_list(kill_list);

// Set each element of the kill list to 999
void empty_kill_list(int *list)
{
  memset(list, 999, sizeof(int) * NUM_TILES);
}

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.

using a for loop to set the elements works fine, but is 
probably much slower.

Any ideas ?

Kevin.