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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.

SEE ALSO

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



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