On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 01:40 +0100, Peter Huewe wrote: > strcmp does return the difference between two strings not only -1,0,1 > consequently > if (strcmp (a,b) == -1) > might lead to taking the wrong branch > > -> compare with <= instead. lib/string.c:strcmp returns only -1,0,1 so that's what the arch versions should do too. However, arch implementations do vary... fyi: using if (strcmp(foo, bar) < 0) is canonical. There are no existing <= -1 uses. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html