title: mem___: bytes or chars
body: <p>Do the mem___ functions e.g. memset take length in bytes or chars? Everything I've seen up to now has indicated bytes, but the CRT of this TI DSP with 16-bit chars I've been working with lately takes sizes in chars. Is this one of the deep, dark corners of the C language (like the fact that sizeof actually returns size in chars), or is TI's implementation nonstandard?</p>