Re: [PATCH] Repalce strncmp by memcmp

[Ming Lei]

Hi,

2010/11/29 Pavel Vasilyev <pavel@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>    This patch replace all strncmp(a, b, c) by  memcmp(a, b, c).
>
> I test on x86_64 (AMD Opteron 285).

In fact, memcmp doesn't handle case of tail of string, so
it is not safe to replace strncmp with memcmp

thanks,
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Lei Ming
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