Re: Ambiguous man memcmp

Re: Ambiguous man memcmp

This is a discussion on Re: Ambiguous man memcmp within the lucky.openbsd.misc forums, part of the OpenBSD category; --> On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 10:55:13PM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > "otherwise returns the difference between the first ...

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Re: Ambiguous man memcmp

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02-18-2008, 05:47 AM

Jason McIntyre

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Re: Ambiguous man memcmp

On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 10:55:13PM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> "otherwise returns the difference between the first two differing bytes"
>
> Let's say already bytes b1[0] and b2[0] differ.
>
> The manpage doesn't say in which order the difference is calculated.
> Whether b1[0]-b2[0] or b2[0]-b1[0].
>
> CL<

in the order you pass them to memcmp()?
jmc

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