Date: 2004aug22 Platform: win32 Level: beginner Q. What's the best way (in win32) to clear memory? A. In ye olden days I used to code:

memset(&MyStruct, 0, sizeof(MyStruct));

Now I write:

ZeroMemory(&MyStruct, sizeof(MyStruct));

Which is one character longer but reads nicer. This is defined in the Win32 headers as:

#define ZeroMemory(Destination,Length) memset((Destination),0,(Length))

Linux has:

bzero(&MyStruct, sizeof(MyStruct));

Sadly bzero is deprecated so you can define it:

#ifndef bzero #define bzero(_d, _n) memset((_d), 0, (_n)) #endif

If you have a newer compiler you can do:

char buf[100] = {}

To zero an array.