A more useful example would be struct { char a; char b; char c; }a; memset(&a, 0, 2 * sizeof(char)); IE trying to cle

A more useful example would be struct { char a; char b; char c; }a; memset(&a, 0, 2 * sizeof(char)); IE trying to clear only part of a struct using memset. Clearly not a great way to do things.