memset - Man Page

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

#include <string.h>

void *memset(void s[.n], int c, size_t n);

The memset() function fills the first n bytes of the memory area pointed to by s with the constant byte c.

The memset() function returns a pointer to the memory area s.

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

bstring(3), bzero(3), swab(3), wmemset(3)