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Date: 2004aug22
Platform: win32

Level: beginnner

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 on character longer but reads nicer.

This is defined in the Win32 headers as:

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

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