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authorLorry Tar Creator <lorry-tar-importer@lorry>2016-01-20 10:55:18 +0000
committerLorry Tar Creator <lorry-tar-importer@lorry>2016-01-20 10:55:18 +0000
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+/* Compare two memory areas with possibly different lengths.
+ Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
+ by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#ifndef MEMCMP2_H
+#define MEMCMP2_H
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+
+/* Compare the memory regions S1 = [s1..s1+N1-1], S2 = [s2..s2+n2-1],
+ lexicographically.
+ This function's result is locale independent, unlike memcoll()'s.
+ Return a negative number if S1 < S2, a positive number if S1 > S2, or
+ 0 if S1 and S2 have the same contents. */
+extern int memcmp2 (const char *s1, size_t n1, const char *s2, size_t n2)
+ _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE;
+
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* MEMCMP2_H */