strset C command

[John Leslie]

is this available in AIX? When I compile some C code on AIX, this
function is not found. I have included string.h. Basically the code
uses it to set value to NULL

char data_length[2]
strset(data_length,'\0');

What is the equivalent to use on AIX?

[Jason Mather]

John Leslie wrote:

> is this available in AIX? When I compile some C code on AIX, this
> function is not found. I have included string.h. Basically the code
> uses it to set value to NULL
>
> char data_length[2]
> strset(data_length,'\0');
>
> What is the equivalent to use on AIX?

strset is deprecated since it can easily overwrite memory past the
end of the string (as it would in the example above).
The code that you want is

memset(data_length, 0, 2);

-- Jason