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Re: weird strncmp usage?

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FWFlorian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date
Nov 3, 2006, 21:05 UTC
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* Andy Whitcroft:
> If you are doing these a _lot_ then there is a significant additional
> cost to using strlen on a constant string.

strlen has been a GCC builtin for quite some time. If the wrapper function is inlined, GCC will optimize it away. (It also turns the

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