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<html> <head> <title>bcmp</title> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="bcmp"> </head> <body BGCOLOR="#ffffff" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#0000ff" ALINK="#0000ff" TEXT="#000000"> <center> <h1>bcmp</h1></center> <PRE> <A HREF="/man3/BCMP">BCMP(3)</A> Linux Programmer's Manual <A HREF="/man3/BCMP">BCMP(3)</A> NAME bcmp - compare byte sequences SYNOPSIS #include <strings.h> int bcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n); DESCRIPTION The bcmp() function compares the two byte sequences s1 and s2 of length n each. If they are equal, and in particular if n is zero, bcmp() re- turns 0. Otherwise, it returns a nonzero result. RETURN VALUE The bcmp() function returns 0 if the byte sequences are equal, other- wise a nonzero result is returned. ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see at- <A HREF="/man7/tributes">tributes(7)</A>. +----------+---------------+---------+ |Interface | Attribute | Value | +----------+---------------+---------+ |bcmp() | Thread safety | MT-Safe | +----------+---------------+---------+ CONFORMING TO 4.3BSD. This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001): use <A HREF="/man3/memcmp">memcmp(3)</A> in new programs. POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bcmp(). SEE ALSO <A HREF="/man3/bstring">bstring(3)</A>, <A HREF="/man3/memcmp">memcmp(3)</A>, <A HREF="/man3/strcasecmp">strcasecmp(3)</A>, <A HREF="/man3/strcmp">strcmp(3)</A>, <A HREF="/man3/strcoll">strcoll(3)</A>, strn- <A HREF="/man3/casecmp">casecmp(3)</A>, <A HREF="/man3/strncmp">strncmp(3)</A> COLOPHON This page is part of release 5.05 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 2017-03-13 <A HREF="/man3/BCMP">BCMP(3)</A></PRE> <center> <h6>Man Pages Copyright Respective Owners. Site Copyright (C) 1994 - 2025 <a href="http://www.he.net">Hurricane Electric</a>. All Rights Reserved.</h6></center> </body> </html>

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