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All devs: watch out for memset

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byo:
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 ;)

BYO

MortenMacFly:
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... ;-)
With regards, Morten.

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