memset seems to not work?

[beicnet]

Hi there,

I'm trying a char cleaning like in standard Arduino environment on the ATmega8, but I got error saying:

invalid conversion from 'char' to 'void*' [-fpermissive]

Code follows:

char pKey;
memset(pKey, 0, sizeof(pKey));

Any suggestions?

Regards

[MCUdude]

Why would you use memset for storing data to a variable?

Have a read over at cplusplus.com. The first argument needs to be void*.

memset((void*)pKey, 0, sizeof(pKey));

Just have in mind; MiniCore does not provide any source files, it's just linked to your IDE installation. I cannot do anything to the code to prevent this, at all. If you believe there's a bug, you'll have to report it at the official Arduino repo

[beicnet]

For the standard Arduino UNO usage the code bellow is working:
memset(pKey, 0, sizeof(pKey));

and for the Core usage you provided, is working now too:
memset((void*)pKey, 0, sizeof(pKey));

Thank you again for your support! ;)