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Offline byo

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All devs: watch out for memset
« on: March 07, 2007, 01:58:51 am »
I've just read some note written by Krzysztof Kowalczyk on his blog titled: "memset() considered harmful" ().
He has written that people usually swap second ant third parameter which in case of zeroing some data will do nothing.

There's also a query which shows that at least half of calls is invalid.

I've already checked C::B and it has no such "mistakes" :D
But it may be a good tip to check your code ;)

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Offline MortenMacFly

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Re: All devs: watch out for memset
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2007, 07:25:25 am »
Whohooo... found one... in a quite old piece of code. Luckily it was only *one* and obviously it didn't cause any harm. But the number of google results scare me a little... ;-)
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