Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!intelhf!ichips!iwarp.intel.com!csun!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Efficient STRing CoMPares? Message-ID: <1991Mar21.080310.26919@kithrup.COM> Date: 21 Mar 91 08:03:10 GMT References: <15537@smoke.brl.mil> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Lines: 21 In article <15537@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >It is also possible for to #define strcmp __strcmp and have >the compiler in-line __strcmp instead of strcmp. This may make it >slightly easier for the implementation to support access to the >external-function definition of strcmp mentioned in my first paragraph. ANSI C still has the requirement that #undef strcmp (after including ) give the user the version from the library, doesn't it? (A footnone in one of the sections; I don't have my copy with me, so I can't give explicit details.) In any event, that footnote seemed to indicate pretty well how the committee thought intrinsics should be handled... -- Sean Eric Fagan | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; sef@kithrup.COM | I had a bellyache at the time." -----------------+ -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.