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Name

bcmp - compare byte sequences

Synopsis


#include <strings.h>
int bcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n);

Description

The bcmp() function compares the two byte sequences s1 and s2 of length n each. If they are equal, and in particular if n is zero, bcmp() returns 0. Otherwise, it returns a nonzero result.

Return Value

The bcmp() function returns 0 if the byte sequences are equal, otherwise a nonzero result is returned.

Attributes

Multithreading (see pthreads(7) )

The bcmp() function is thread-safe.

Conforming to

4.3BSD. This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001): use memcmp(3) in new programs. POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bcmp().

See Also

memcmp(3) , strcasecmp(3) , strcmp(3) , strcoll(3) , strncasecmp(3) , strncmp(3)

Colophon

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