>>>>> "jaltman" == Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at columbia.edu> writes: jaltman> Just wondering. What are the declarations for memset() in the header jaltman> files that come with those compilers? extern void *memset(void *, int, size_t); That's the solaris 8 declaration of memset(). Both gcc 2.95.3 and gcc 3.0.3 fail to provide their own version of string.h. ---Tom