Glynn Clements wrote: > 1. The test against the NUL byte can't be eliminated unless you know > in advance that the string is long enough. Actually, this is false. If the variable string terminates prematurely, it will differ from the fixed string at that point, so a separate NUL check is unnecessary. As Jesse points out, the logical alternative to the hard-coded comparisons is memcmp(), not strcmp(). You only need to use strcmp() if you don't know the length of either string in advance. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
