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From: will@charyb.COM (Will Crowder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: compare strings, strcmp
Keywords: strcmp,strings
Message-ID: <309@charyb.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 89 19:05:59 GMT
References: <4463@blake.acs.washington.edu> <11605@smoke.BRL.MIL> <308@charyb.COM>
Reply-To: will@charyb.UUCP (Will Crowder)
Organization: KFW Corporation, Newbury Park, CA
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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...

This macro is "unsafe" because the macro arguments a and b are used twice,
hence possible side effect difficulties...

Will