/* * Mach Operating System * Copyright (c) 1992,1991,1990,1989 Carnegie Mellon University * All Rights Reserved. * * Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its * documentation is hereby granted, provided that both the copyright * notice and this permission notice appear in all copies of the * software, derivative works or modified versions, and any portions * thereof, and that both notices appear in supporting documentation. * * CARNEGIE MELLON ALLOWS FREE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IN ITS "AS IS" * CONDITION. CARNEGIE MELLON DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY OF ANY KIND FOR * ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE. * * Carnegie Mellon requests users of this software to return to * * Software Distribution Coordinator or Software.Distribution@CS.CMU.EDU * School of Computer Science * Carnegie Mellon University * Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890 * * any improvements or extensions that they make and grant Carnegie Mellon * the rights to redistribute these changes. */ /* * File: limach/strcmp.c * Author: Robert V. Baron at Carnegie Mellon * Date: Oct 13, 1992 * Abstract: * strcmp (s1, s2) compares the strings "s1" and "s2". * It returns 0 if the strings are identical. It returns * > 0 if the first character that differs into two strings * is larger in s1 than in s2 or if s1 is longer than s2 and * the contents are identical up to the length of s2. * It returns < 0 if the first differing character is smaller * in s1 than in s2 or if s1 is shorter than s2 and the * contents are identical upto the length of s1. */ #include int strcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2) { register unsigned int a, b; while ( (a = *s1++), (b = *s2++), a && b) { if (a != b) return (a-b); } return a-b; }