Re: memset doesn't work as expected

From:
Richard Herring <junk@[127.0.0.1]>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:30:54 +0000
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In message <622rudF2202rqU1@mid.dfncis.de>, Lars Uffmann
<aral@nurfuerspam.de> writes

Richard Herring wrote:

Care to enlighten me, for one? :) I'm curious. Assuming he has set n
to 4 first :) and should synchronize n with the max value for j, and
should probably link the size of the array construction to that with
a const/variable,

That's three assumptions already ;-)


Yeah, I know... I sorta objected first, then discovered one issue after
another *g* But none that would actually make the code not work if
treated properly. So I thought maybe I was missing something.

I currently see no other problems...

Until he decides to switch from int to some user-defined type that
isn't POD...

What does POD mean?


Plain Old Data, though on looking more closely what I meant isn't
exactly what the standard defines as POD.

Do you mean some type that'll only store pointers to it's data in the
array, or some type where sizeof (type) doesn't yield the correct size?


I meant some type where all-bits-zero doesn't equate to having value
zero, or whose constructor actually needs to do something.

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