Re: [PATCH v4] string.h: Add str_has_prefix() helper function

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 12:13:43 +0900
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:

> > Also, I believe there are some memcmp implementations that start at the
> > end of the memory locations, not the beginning. That is, it compares
> > backwards. Which is also legit for memcmp to do.  
> 
> I'm not sure, the man page says:
> 
>     RETURN VALUE
>        The memcmp() function returns an integer less than, equal to,
>        or greater than zero if the first n bytes of s1 is found,
>        respectively, to be less than, to match, or be greater than
>        the first n bytes of s2.
> 
>        For a nonzero return value, the sign is determined by the sign
>        of the difference between the first pair of bytes (interpreted
>        as unsigned char) that differ in s1 and s2.
> 
>        If n is zero, the return value is zero.
> 
> 
> It should return difference in the first pair of bytes that differ so
> I guess implementations should compare from the beginning.

Ah, makes sense. I think I'm thinking of memcpy() which can start at
the end, or maybe even the deprecated bcmp(). It's been a long time
since I had to deal with the implementations of these.

-- Steve