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.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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.\" Linux libc source code
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.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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.\" 386BSD man pages
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:49:23 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.TH MEMSET 3 1993-04-11 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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memset \- fill memory with a constant byte
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <string.h>
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.sp
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.BI "void *memset(void *" s ", int " c ", size_t " n );
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The \fBmemset\fP() function fills the first \fIn\fP bytes of the
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memory area pointed to by \fIs\fP with the constant byte \fIc\fP.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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The \fBmemset\fP() function returns a pointer to the memory area
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\fIs\fP.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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SVID 3, 4.3BSD, ISO 9899
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR bzero (3),
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.BR swab (3),
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.BR wmemset (3)
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