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Overwrite the specified `numBytes` of memory starting at the specified `ptr`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslalg_arraydestructionprimitives.h>`

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static
void
scribbleOverMemory(
    void* ptr,
    size_t numBytes);
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