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authorbrobecke <brobecke@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>2007-04-06 06:00:18 +0000
committerbrobecke <brobecke@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>2007-04-06 06:00:18 +0000
commit9779ba931e62edc9d8fb81c1b0569ea4e80df162 (patch)
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parent61a9389f17cbef5616b6d35a39b9945b12e1cc11 (diff)
downloadgcc-9779ba931e62edc9d8fb81c1b0569ea4e80df162.tar.gz
* filename_cmp.c (filename_cmp): Improve documentation.
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@123537 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
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-rw-r--r--libiberty/filename_cmp.c11
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/libiberty/ChangeLog b/libiberty/ChangeLog
index f790651748a..62d3929d22b 100644
--- a/libiberty/ChangeLog
+++ b/libiberty/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2007-04-06 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
+ * filename_cmp.c (filename_cmp): Improve documentation.
+
2007-04-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
* filename_cmp.c: Include "config.h".
diff --git a/libiberty/filename_cmp.c b/libiberty/filename_cmp.c
index d2052b48717..59bb726b90e 100644
--- a/libiberty/filename_cmp.c
+++ b/libiberty/filename_cmp.c
@@ -31,12 +31,13 @@
@deftypefn Extension int filename_cmp (const char *@var{s1}, const char *@var{s2})
-Return zero if the two paths @var{s1} and @var{s2} are equivalent.
-If not equivalent, the returned value is similar to what strcmp would
-return. In other words, it returns a negative value if @var{s1} is less
-than @var{s2}, or a positive value if @var{s2} is greater than @var{s2}.
+Return zero if the two file names @var{s1} and @var{s2} are equivalent.
+If not equivalent, the returned value is similar to what @code{strcmp}
+would return. In other words, it returns a negative value if @var{s1}
+is less than @var{s2}, or a positive value if @var{s2} is greater than
+@var{s2}.
-This function does not normalize path names. As a result, this function
+This function does not normalize file names. As a result, this function
will treat filenames that are spelled differently as different even in
the case when the two filenames point to the same underlying file.
However, it does handle the fact that on DOS-like file systems, forward