bzero

OS/161 Reference Manual

Name

bzero - zero out memory

Library

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

Synopsis

#include <string.h>

void
bzero(void *buf, size_t len);

Description

The region of memory pointed to by buf, of length len, is zeroed out.

Restrictions

Zeroing the bytes of a floating point number does not necessarily produce a floating point zero value. Similarly, zeroing the bytes of a pointer does not necessarily produce NULL.