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authorRichard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>1999-05-03 07:29:11 +0000
committerRichard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>1999-05-03 07:29:11 +0000
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+/* Portable version of bzero for systems without it.
+ This function is in the public domain. */
+
+/*
+NAME
+ bzero -- zero the contents of a specified memory region
+
+SYNOPSIS
+ void bzero (char *to, int count)
+
+DESCRIPTION
+ Zero COUNT bytes of memory pointed to by TO.
+
+BUGS
+ Significant speed enhancements may be made in some environments
+ by zeroing more than a single byte at a time, or by unrolling the
+ loop.
+
+*/
+
+
+void
+bzero (to, count)
+ char *to;
+ int count;
+{
+ while (count-- > 0)
+ {
+ *to++ = 0;
+ }
+}