use of memset and optimization

[Bill Sommerfeld]

> This function is not marked to be inlined.  Therefore from my
> perspective the compiler's behavior is incorrect because
> the compiler is making an assumption as to what the memset() function
> does.  

You may be doing inter-module optimizations (deferring code generation
to "link" time -- both sun and hp let you do this in their vendor
compilers).

at this point, the code generator can *know* that you are using the
system version of memset().

							- Bill