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1. [S.Marshall@uk.ac.hull.seq: BSD/SYSV bzero/memset]

| I am lead to believe that BSD versions of Unix comes with bzero, while USG
| and SYSV come with memset.  Am I being lead right?  I need to know to reduce
| the complexity of an #ifdef in some (ultra) portable code; I want to be able
| to say:

| #if defined(BSD)
| #define               ZERO(s,n)       bzero((s),(n))
| #else
| #define               ZERO(s,n)       memset((s), 0, (n))
| #endif

| Is this the best way to do this?  Or should I just assume that everyone has
| bzero accept SYSV?  Post/email is fine.

        Thanks to the 100s who replied; I couldn't reply to everyone.
     Most people seemed to think it was mostly OK & reliable, except that
     that's not quite enough!  The solution?  Write my own.  This is it.
     Anything wrong with it?  This is for writing zeros into a string.

/*
 * Why don't I use memset?  Err...  Or is it bzero?  Cos it's easier
 * to write my own:
 */

static void Zero (start)
  char  *start;
{
    char  *c;
    int   length = strlen (start);

    for (c=start; c<(start+length); c++)

        thanx, Simon.   *c = '\0';

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Simon Marshall, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK
              "``La la la la la la la la la'' means I love you."

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