Glynn Clements wrote: > No, but Stephen mentioned that strcmp() "uses a do/while loop". > On a modern CPU, branches don't normally take any CPU cycles. I would have thought everything takes CPU cycles, modern CPU or not? /Per Jessen - 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