diff --git a/libc/arch-x86/string/memset.S b/libc/arch-x86/string/memset.S
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1059ccc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libc/arch-x86/string/memset.S
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/*	$OpenBSD: memset.S,v 1.3 2005/08/07 11:30:38 espie Exp $ */
+/*
+ * Written by J.T. Conklin <jtc@netbsd.org>.
+ * Public domain.
+ */
+
+#include <machine/asm.h>
+
+ENTRY(memset)
+	pushl	%edi
+	pushl	%ebx
+	movl	12(%esp),%edi
+	movzbl	16(%esp),%eax		/* unsigned char, zero extend */
+	movl	20(%esp),%ecx
+	pushl	%edi			/* push address of buffer */
+
+	cld				/* set fill direction forward */
+
+	/*
+	 * if the string is too short, it's really not worth the overhead
+	 * of aligning to word boundries, etc.  So we jump to a plain
+	 * unaligned set.
+	 */
+	cmpl	$0x0f,%ecx
+	jle	L1
+
+	movb	%al,%ah			/* copy char to all bytes in word */
+	movl	%eax,%edx
+	sall	$16,%eax
+	orl	%edx,%eax
+
+	movl	%edi,%edx		/* compute misalignment */
+	negl	%edx
+	andl	$3,%edx
+	movl	%ecx,%ebx
+	subl	%edx,%ebx
+
+	movl	%edx,%ecx		/* set until word aligned */
+	rep
+	stosb
+
+	movl	%ebx,%ecx
+	shrl	$2,%ecx			/* set by words */
+	rep
+	stosl
+
+	movl	%ebx,%ecx		/* set remainder by bytes */
+	andl	$3,%ecx
+L1:	rep
+	stosb
+
+	popl	%eax			/* pop address of buffer */
+	popl	%ebx
+	popl	%edi
+	ret