Compiler error: memset was not declared in this scope

Question

Hi,

I am trying to compile my c program in ubuntu 9.10 (gcc 4.4.1).

I am getting this error:

Rect.cpp:344: error: ‘memset’ was not declared in this scope

But the problem is I have already included in my cpp file:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

And the same program compiles fine under ubuntu 8.04 gcc 4.2.4).

Please tell me what am i missing.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You should include <string.h> (or its C++ equivalent, <cstring>).

Answer 2

Whevever you get a problem like this just go to the man page for the function in question and it will tell you what header you are missing, e.g.

$ man memset

MEMSET(3)                BSD Library Functions Manual                MEMSET(3)

NAME
     memset -- fill a byte string with a byte value

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <string.h>

     void *
     memset(void *b, int c, size_t len);