compare strings, strcmp
Blair P. Houghton
bph at buengc.BU.EDU
Sat Nov 18 10:22:04 AEST 1989
In article <5221 at mentor.cc.purdue.edu> aic at mentor.cc.purdue.edu (George A. Basar) writes:
>
> I blew it, apologies to all. No excuse given. This is not unsafe for the
>application specified, though, which was a fixed array of strings(aasuming
>a calling convention of StrEq(a[i],b[i])).
In which case one of the more common calls people would try would be
of the form
StrEq( a[i++], b[j++] )
Thus allowing the macro to blow up. So it really still is a hazardous
piece of programming, but very useful if you're careful to remember its
characteristics.
--Blair
"Moral: Don't judge your own code.
That's what we're here for. :-)"
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