compare strings, strcmp

William E. Aitken aitken at hati.cs.cornell.edu
Fri Nov 17 08:36:20 AEST 1989


In article <1632 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <308 at charyb.COM> dan at charyb.UUCP (Dan Mick) writes:
>| In article <11605 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>| >#define	StrEq( a, b )	(*(a) == *(b) && strcmp( a, b ) == 0)	/* UNSAFE */
>| 
>| Why the UNSAFE comment?  This looks like utterly standard C to me...
>
	Consider ``StrEq(p++, q++);'' for example.
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