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c++ - What's the use of memset() return value?

memset() is declared to return void* that is always the same value as the address passed into the function.

What's the use of the return value? Why does it not return void?

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It may be used for call chaining like:

char a[200];
strcpy(memset(a, 0, 200), "bla");

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