wmemset(3)

wmemset3

Fill an array of wide-characters with a constant wide character

Usage

#include <wchar.h>

wchar_t *wmemset(size_t n; wchar_t wcs[n], wchar_t wc, size_t n);

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

The wmemset() function is the wide-character equivalent of the memset(3) function. It fills the array of n wide-characters starting at wcs with n copies of the wide character wc.

Return value

wmemset() returns wcs.

Attributes

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

InterfaceAttributeValue
wmemset()Thread safetyMT-Safe

Releases

14 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 13 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 5.0
  6. 6.0
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. Arch

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, C99.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.