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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: avoiding builtin memset
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 03:57:08 +0100
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Anh Vo <anhvofrcaus@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 9:56:51 AM UTC-7, Shark8 wrote:
>> I suppose you could try this:
>> 
>> Procedure Memset(
>> Address : System.Address;
>> Value   : System.Storage_Elements.Storage_Element;
>> Length  : Natural
>> ) is
>> Use System.Storage_Elements;
>> Memory : Storage_Array(1..Storage_Offset(Length))
>> with Import, Address => Address;
>> Begin
>> For Element of Memory loop
>> Element := Value;
>> end loop;
>> End Memset;
> 
> It is very nice. Indeed, it is compact and readable piece of code.
> 
> Anh Vo
> 

You'll need to export that as the C memset function.