C question

is a byte with all zeros equivalent to the integer value (signed or unsigned) zero, in terms of portability?

Such that, is memset(&i, 0, sizeof(int)); equivalent to i = 0;?

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C is the worse replacement for other languages. Universities were ``forced to'' replace better languages with C in the late 80s and early 90s.

The C takeover came a lot more recently than you might think. They make you think everyone used C in the 70s and that's why we're stuck with it, but that's not true at all. C was a toy project in the 70s.

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/primevalC.html

Does that look like C was the important and popular language you may have been taught it was?