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BCMP(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual BCMP(3) NAME bcmp -- compare byte string LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include <strings.h> int bcmp(const void *b1, const void *b2, size_t len); DESCRIPTION The bcmp() function compares byte string b1 against byte string b2, returning zero if they are identical, non-zero otherwise. Both strings are assumed to be len bytes long. Zero-length strings are always identi- cal. The strings may overlap. SEE ALSO memcmp(3), strcasecmp(3), strcmp(3), strcoll(3), strxfrm(3) HISTORY A bcmp() function first appeared in 4.2BSD. Its prototype existed previ- ously in <string.h> before it was moved to <strings.h> for IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'') compliance. FreeBSD 6.0 June 4, 1993 FreeBSD 6.0
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