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BCMP

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2008-08-06
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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.  

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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