Block Initialization

[Chris Torek]

>>The chore is to initialize the entire structure to zero.  How do I do it?

In article <4510 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn
(VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>The wrong way is to use bzero(), which fills a region with 0 bytes
>....

Structure assignment is fine in most cases, but suppose instead that
some hapless programmer is supposed to initialise a 40K-byte structure
using a small model compiler on an IBM PC?  There is no space for a
second copy of the structure.  Using bzero() here (assuming it exists,
or after writing it) is reasonable, given the compiler limitations.
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