strcmp.c   [plain text]


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/* Copyright (c) 1992, 1997 NeXT Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 * 
 *	File:	libc/gen/ppc/strcmp.c
 *
 *	This file contains machine dependent code for string comparison
 *	on NeXT 88K-based products.
 *
 * HISTORY
 *  24-Jan-1997 Umesh Vaishampayan (umeshv@NeXT.com)
 *	Ported to PPC.
 * 24-Nov-92  Derek B Clegg (dclegg@next.com)
 *	Created.
 */
#import <string.h>

/* This routine should be optimized. */

/* ANSI sez:
 *   The `strcmp' function compares the string pointed to by `s1' to the
 *   string pointed to by `s2'.
 *   The `strcmp' function returns an integer greater than, equal to, or less
 *   than zero, according as the string pointed to by `s1' is greater than,
 *   equal to, or less than the string pointed to by `s2'.  [4.11.4.2]
 */
int
strcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2)
{
    for ( ; *s1 == *s2; s1++, s2++)
	if (*s1 == '\0')
	    return 0;
    return ((*(unsigned char *)s1 < *(unsigned char *)s2) ? -1 : +1);
}