Welcome to OStack Knowledge Sharing Community for programmer and developer-Open, Learning and Share
Welcome To Ask or Share your Answers For Others

Categories

0 votes
480 views
in Technique[技术] by (71.8m points)

c++ - What's the use of memset() return value?

memset() is declared to return void* that is always the same value as the address passed into the function.

What's the use of the return value? Why does it not return void?

See Question&Answers more detail:os

与恶龙缠斗过久,自身亦成为恶龙;凝视深渊过久,深渊将回以凝视…
Welcome To Ask or Share your Answers For Others

1 Answer

0 votes
by (71.8m points)

It may be used for call chaining like:

char a[200];
strcpy(memset(a, 0, 200), "bla");

与恶龙缠斗过久,自身亦成为恶龙;凝视深渊过久,深渊将回以凝视…
Welcome to OStack Knowledge Sharing Community for programmer and developer-Open, Learning and Share
Click Here to Ask a Question

...