Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] match_basename: use strncmp instead of strcmp
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Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
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- Mar 10, 2013, 12:11 UTC
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>> By the way, if we know the length of the string, we could use memcmp. >> This one is allowed to compare 4-bytes at a time (he doesn't care >> about end of string). This is true because the value of the length >> parameter is no longer "at most". > > We still need to worry about access violation after NUL when two > strings have different lengths. That could be avoided in this > particular case, but I think it's too fragile.
Why would we need to compare if the strings don't have the same length ? We already do that in combine-diff.c:append_lost().