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From: browns@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Efficient STRing CoMPares?
Message-ID: <3940.27ede62a@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 25 Mar 91 16:59:38 GMT
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In article <MARC.91Mar20080239@marc.watson.ibm.com>, marc@arnor.UUCP (Marc Auslander) writes:
> A correct compiler cannot inline strcmp unless it is given
> extralingual permission to do so - for example in a pragma or by
> defining some reserved symbol or by some other means.  This is because
> it is legal to combine a program which uses strcmp with another which
> defines it to by anything at all!

Assuming that by 'correct compiler' you mean one that conforms to the 
ANSI standard, I have to disagree with your statement.

Sec 4.1.6 of the standard specifically allows compilers to inline
the standard library functions.

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