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Message-ID: <CAJgzZoo499zc6513w=QDmSeHwC0mt-Ardr9d7ryy3QvJoDtLaw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 14:50:23 -0700
From: enh <enh@...gle.com>
To: libc-coord@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>, gcc@....gnu.org
Subject: Re: Add new ABI '__memcmpeq()' to libc
plus testing for _equality_ can (as mentioned earlier) have slightly
different properties from the three-way comparator behavior of
bcmp()/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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