Re: Question about Memset

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 02/15/98


On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Akuma/Chris Baggett/DOOMer wrote:

>well, if I were to do this
>memset(ch, 0, sizeof(struct char_data));
>would that set EVERYTHING within it to 0?
>including all the structs within structs, the
>affected types, et al?

Everything would become 0 or NULL (assuming your NULL is all bits 0),
including the padding between variables.

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