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| author | DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> | 2001-09-26 18:45:50 +0000 |
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| committer | DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> | 2001-09-26 18:45:50 +0000 |
| commit | 39423523167c47f72822dbb9eb3ab4a0dfeafe68 (patch) | |
| tree | b437d1ed0d3cb7e6a0a67e5dd30ef19abbedb95e /libiberty/bcmp.c | |
| parent | 4e6667ac4f987fecbcf576513c70485a4718712e (diff) | |
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merge from gcc
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diff --git a/libiberty/bcmp.c b/libiberty/bcmp.c index 11e4417..71bb7ae 100644 --- a/libiberty/bcmp.c +++ b/libiberty/bcmp.c @@ -3,28 +3,15 @@ /* -NAME +@deftypefn Supplemental int bcmp (char *@var{x}, char *@var{y}, int @var{count}) - bcmp -- compare two memory regions +Compares the first @var{count} bytes of two areas of memory. Returns +zero if they are the same, non-zero otherwise. Returns zero if +@var{count} is zero. A non-zero result only indicates a difference, +it does not indicate any sorting order (say, by having a positive +result mean @var{x} sorts before @var{y}). -SYNOPSIS - - int bcmp (char *from, char *to, int count) - -DESCRIPTION - - Compare two memory regions and return zero if they are identical, - non-zero otherwise. If count is zero, return zero. - -NOTES - - No guarantee is made about the non-zero returned value. In - particular, the results may be signficantly different than - strcmp(), where the return value is guaranteed to be less than, - equal to, or greater than zero, according to lexicographical - sorting of the compared regions. - -BUGS +@end deftypefn */ |