From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: strset function
Date: 15 Nov 1999 13:53:31 -0800
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alainm AT news DOT mcgill DOT ca (Alain Magloire) writes:

> Malcolm (donald DOT mcleanNOdoSPAM AT talk21 DOT com DOT invalid) wrote:
> : What does strset do ? I imagine it sets a string to all one
> : character. This is easy to code
>
> Then, in that case you are better off with memset() which on most
> OS/libc coded in assembly for speed.

Not necessarily-- if you don't know the length of the string, you'd
have to do `memset(s, 'X', strlen(s))', which requires making two
passes over the string and could end up being slower.
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Nate Eldredge
neldredge AT hmc DOT edu