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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 16:59:51 -0500
From: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@...il.com>
To: enh <enh@...gle.com>
Cc: libc-coord@...ts.openwall.com, gcc@....gnu.org,
GNU C Library <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>
Subject: Re: Add new ABI '__memcmpeq()' to libc
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021, 4:50 PM enh via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>
wrote:
> plus testing for _equality_ can (as mentioned earlier) have slightly
> different properties from the three-way comparator behavior of
> bcmp()/memcmp().
>
How does bcmp() have a three-way comparator?
Or do you mean how it is currently implemented as an alias to memcmp()?
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 2:43 PM Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 16 Sep 2021, James Y Knight wrote:
> >
> > > Wouldn't it be far simpler to just un-deprecate bcmp?
> >
> > The aim is to have something to which calls can be generated in all
> > standards modes. bcmp has never been part of ISO C; there's nothing to
> > undeprecate there.
> >
> > --
> > Joseph S. Myers
> > joseph@...esourcery.com
> >
>
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