debian man page for fmemcmp

Query: fmemcmp

OS: debian

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fmemcmp(3)						     Library Functions Manual							fmemcmp(3)

NAME
fmemcmp - fuzzy comparison of two memory areas
SYNOPSIS
#include <fstrcmp.h> #define FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL #define FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD #define FSTRCMP_ERROR double fmemcmp(const void *data1, size_t size1, const void *data2, size_t size2);
DESCRIPTION
The fmemcmp() function compares the two memory areas, the size1 bytes pointed to by data1 and the size2 bytes pointed to by data2.
RETURN VALUE
The fmemcmp function returns a floating point value between 0.0 and FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL. A value of 0.0 means the memory areas are utterly un-alike. A value of FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL means the memory areas are identical. A value of more than FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD (it lies between 0.0 and FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL) would be considered "similar" by most people. A value of FSTRCMP_ERROR (always negative) indicates a malloc(3) failure.
SEE ALSO
fmemcmpi(3) fuzzy comparison of two memory areas fstrcmp(3) fuzzy comparison of two strings memcmp(3) compare memory areas
COPYRIGHT
fstrcmp version 0.4 Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Miller Peter Miller <pmiller@opensource.org.au> The comparison code is derived from the fuzzy comparison functions in GNU Gettext 0.17. The GNU Gettext comparison functions were, in turn, derived from GNU Diff 2.7. Copyright (C) 1988-2009 Free Software Foundation fmemcmp(3)
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