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.\" Linux libc source code
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.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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.\" 386BSD man pages
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:36:50 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
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.\" Modified Tue Oct 22 23:47:36 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
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.TH BCMP 3 2002-12-31 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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bcmp \- compare byte sequences
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <strings.h>
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.BI "int bcmp(const void *" s1 ", const void *" s2 ", size_t " n );
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.BR bcmp ()
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function compares the two byte sequences
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.I s1
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and
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.I s2
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of length
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.I n
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each.
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If they are equal, and in particular if
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.I n
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is zero,
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.BR bcmp ()
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returns 0.
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Otherwise it returns a non-zero result.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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The
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.BR bcmp ()
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function returns 0 if the byte sequences are equal,
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otherwise a non-zero result is returned.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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4.3BSD.
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This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001): use
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.BR memcmp (3)
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in new programs.
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.\" FIXME . Mar 08: The next POSIX.1 revision removes bcmp().
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR memcmp (3),
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.BR strcasecmp (3),
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.BR strcmp (3),
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.BR strcoll (3),
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.BR strncasecmp (3),
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.BR strncmp (3)
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