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From: aitken@hati.cs.cornell.edu (William E. Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: compare strings, strcmp
Keywords: strcmp,strings
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Date: 16 Nov 89 21:36:20 GMT
References: <4463@blake.acs.washington.edu> <11605@smoke.BRL.MIL> <308@charyb.COM> <1632@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
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In article <1632@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <308@charyb.COM> dan@charyb.UUCP (Dan Mick) writes:
>| In article <11605@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@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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