glibc 2.1.96 (sysdeps/i386/i486/bits/string.h has a bug)

[Ulrich Drepper]

Denis Zaitsev <zzz@cd-club.ru> writes:

> The strcmp implementation has a problem. If either of arguments is of
> type (void*) then the __strcmp_xx macros will dereference this void
> pointer with all the consequences. And, say, bind-9 can't be
> compiled... So, here is the straightforward patch.

I've made a different change which you can find in 2.1.97.

> By the way, what were the reasons to make these 3 macros which all do
> the same? It seems that one inline function would look better...

No.

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