On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 01:40 +0100, Peter Huewe wrote:
> strcmp does return the difference between two strings not only -1,0,1
> consequently
> if (strcmp (a,b) == -1)
> might lead to taking the wrong branch
>
> -> compare with <= instead.
lib/string.c:strcmp returns only -1,0,1
so that's what the arch versions should do too.
However, arch implementations do vary...
fyi: using
if (strcmp(foo, bar) < 0)
is canonical.
There are no existing <= -1 uses.
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