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Subject: LSC string copy bug
Summary: (or is it just me...)
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Date: 16 Nov 88 08:29:47 GMT
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I'm comparing two string using the standard STRCMP function in
LSC 3.0.

It looks something like this:

strcmp(s1, s2)
char *s1, *s2;
	for (; *s1 == *s2 ; s1++, s2++) if (!*s1) break;
	return (*s1 - *s2);
}

Seem to work fine except when I pass it a string consisting of
leading 0xFF (or '\377') characters in s1. It always return
something less than 0 (the debugger says *s1 == -1). Anyone
know why this doesn't work.

Greg Finnegan
(its too late for a snappy footer)