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Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/binutils/libiberty/bcmp.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/binutils/libiberty/bcmp.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/binutils/libiberty/bcmp.c b/contrib/binutils/libiberty/bcmp.c index 11e4417..1895773 100644 --- a/contrib/binutils/libiberty/bcmp.c +++ b/contrib/binutils/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, nonzero otherwise. Returns zero if +@var{count} is zero. A nonzero 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 */ |
