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| 5b2abdfb | 1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 |
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2 | .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. |
| 3 | .\" | |
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4 | .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by |
| 5 | .\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3, | |
| 6 | .\" on Information Processing Systems. | |
| 7 | .\" | |
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8 | .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without |
| 9 | .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions | |
| 10 | .\" are met: | |
| 11 | .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright | |
| 12 | .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. | |
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| 14 | .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the | |
| 15 | .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. | |
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16 | .\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors |
| 17 | .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software | |
| 18 | .\" without specific prior written permission. | |
| 19 | .\" | |
| 20 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND | |
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| 31 | .\" | |
| 5b2abdfb | 32 | .\" @(#)memset.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 |
| 6465356a | 33 | .\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/string/memset.3,v 1.10 2010/02/04 11:23:28 ru Exp $ |
| e9ce8d39 | 34 | .\" |
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35 | .Dd June 4, 1993 |
| 36 | .Dt MEMSET 3 | |
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37 | .Os |
| 38 | .Sh NAME | |
| 5b2abdfb | 39 | .Nm memset |
| ad3c9f2a | 40 | .Nd fill a byte string with a byte value |
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41 | .Sh LIBRARY |
| 42 | .Lb libc | |
| 43 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
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44 | .In string.h |
| 45 | .Ft void * | |
| 46 | .Fn memset "void *b" "int c" "size_t len" | |
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47 | .Sh DESCRIPTION |
| 48 | The | |
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49 | .Fn memset |
| 50 | function | |
| 51 | writes | |
| e9ce8d39 | 52 | .Fa len |
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53 | bytes of value |
| 54 | .Fa c | |
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55 | (converted to an |
| 56 | .Vt "unsigned char" ) | |
| 57 | to the string | |
| 5b2abdfb | 58 | .Fa b . |
| e9ce8d39 | 59 | .Sh RETURN VALUES |
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60 | The |
| 61 | .Fn memset | |
| 62 | function returns its first argument. | |
| e9ce8d39 | 63 | .Sh SEE ALSO |
| 5b2abdfb | 64 | .Xr bzero 3 , |
| ad3c9f2a | 65 | .Xr memset_pattern 3 , |
| 6465356a | 66 | .Xr memset_s.3 , |
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67 | .Xr swab 3 , |
| 68 | .Xr wmemset 3 | |
| 5b2abdfb | 69 | .Sh STANDARDS |
| e9ce8d39 | 70 | The |
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71 | .Fn memset |
| 72 | function | |
| 73 | conforms to | |
| 74 | .St -isoC . |