compare strings, strcmp

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <5205 at mentor.cc.purdue.edu> aic at mentor.cc.purdue.edu (George A. Basar) writes:

|   It is not unsafe, it is just that he was looking for a a way to not
| perform the strcmp if the first chars were unequal.  He stated it was
| unsafe(performance-wise) since the order of evaluation is suspect. So the
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| strcmp may be performed before the test for *(a)==*(b).

  Not in C, it's not. && is evaluated left to right.
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