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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Think C and strncmp
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Date: 24 Apr 91 15:42:03 GMT
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In-Reply-To: larson@snmp.sri.com's message of 23 Apr 91 23:55:53 GMT

Alan Larson wrote:

       3.	The strncmp routine now wants a long (actually size_t)
	   as its third argument.  This makes it especially difficult
	   to write programs that will port easily to and from unix
	   systems, where that variable is still an int.  This would
	   be less of a problem if the compiler did the type conversion,
	   but it doesn't.

No?  Well if you make sure that a function prototype is present
(presumably bu #include'ing the relevant file) then type conversion
should occur.

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY