Should C++ programmer avoid memset?

Question

I heard a saying that c++ programmers should avoid memset,

class ArrInit {
    //! int a[1024] = { 0 };
    int a[1024];
public:
    ArrInit() {  memset(a, 0         


        

Answer 1

There's no real reason to not use it except for the few cases people pointed out that no one would use anyway, but there's no real benefit to using it either unless you are filling memguards or something.