linux man page for bcmp

BCMP(3) 						     Linux Programmer's Manual							   BCMP(3)

NAME
       bcmp - compare byte sequences

SYNOPSIS
       #include <strings.h>

       int bcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n);

DESCRIPTION
       The  bcmp() function compares the two byte sequences s1 and s2 of length n each.  If they are equal, and in particular if n is zero, bcmp()
       returns 0.  Otherwise it returns a nonzero result.

RETURN VALUE
       The bcmp() function returns 0 if the byte sequences are equal, otherwise a nonzero result is returned.

CONFORMING TO
       4.3BSD.	This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001): use memcmp(3) in new programs.	POSIX.1-2008 removes the  specifi-
       cation of bcmp().

SEE ALSO
       memcmp(3), strcasecmp(3), strcmp(3), strcoll(3), strncasecmp(3), strncmp(3)

COLOPHON
       This  page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux								    2008-08-06								   BCMP(3)