<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.4, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <title>memset (The Red Hat newlib C Library)</title> <meta name="description" content="memset (The Red Hat newlib C Library)"> <meta name="keywords" content="memset (The Red Hat newlib C Library)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Document-Index.html#Document-Index" rel="index" title="Document Index"> <link href="Document-Index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Strings.html#Strings" rel="up" title="Strings"> <link href="rawmemchr.html#rawmemchr" rel="next" title="rawmemchr"> <link href="memrchr.html#memrchr" rel="prev" title="memrchr"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} blockquote.smallindentedblock {margin-right: 0em; font-size: smaller} blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <a name="memset"></a> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="rawmemchr.html#rawmemchr" accesskey="n" rel="next">rawmemchr</a>, Previous: <a href="memrchr.html#memrchr" accesskey="p" rel="prev">memrchr</a>, Up: <a href="Strings.html#Strings" accesskey="u" rel="up">Strings</a> [<a href="Document-Index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Document-Index.html#Document-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <a name="memset_002d_002d_002dset-an-area-of-memory"></a> <h3 class="section">5.13 <code>memset</code>—set an area of memory</h3> <a name="index-memset"></a> <p><strong>Synopsis</strong> </p><div class="example"> <pre class="example">#include <string.h> void *memset(void *<var>dst</var>, int <var>c</var>, size_t <var>length</var>); </pre></div> <p><strong>Description</strong><br> This function converts the argument <var>c</var> into an unsigned char and fills the first <var>length</var> characters of the array pointed to by <var>dst</var> to the value. </p> <br> <p><strong>Returns</strong><br> <code>memset</code> returns the value of <var>dst</var>. </p> <br> <p><strong>Portability</strong><br> <code>memset</code> is ANSI C. </p> <p><code>memset</code> requires no supporting OS subroutines. </p> <br> </body> </html>