compare strings, strcmp

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <308 at charyb.COM> dan at charyb.UUCP (Dan Mick) writes:
| In article <11605 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
| >#define	StrEq( a, b )	(*(a) == *(b) && strcmp( a, b ) == 0)	/* UNSAFE */
| 
| Why the UNSAFE comment?  This looks like utterly standard C to me...

  I can only speculate, but strcmp can give memory faults if the string
is not properly terminated. There may be other reasons I'm missing, I
lost a day's news and don't have the original.
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