On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Charles Lockhart wrote: >Anybody know what the fastest way to clear a buffer in C on Linux would >be? Anything faster than > >for(i = 0; i < sizeofbuffer; i++) > buffer[i] = 0;
How about using pointers so you don't need to use an index? >For some reason I think I saw >memcpy(&buffer, 0, sizeofbuffer); >used somewhere once, but after a long day, that looks wierd to me. If by weird, you mean it will crash. Yeah, this is weird. ;-) I think you meant memset. memcpy takes two buffers. --jc -- Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
