Re: strings

Bagas Sanjaya
2023-04-21T12:21:45Z

On 4/21/23 13:34, Willy Tarreau wrote:

>> Looks like above link is about hex arithmetic implemented using strings,
>> right?
>
> It looks more like a reinvention of the classical multi-byte string
> processing (memcmp, memcpy, memmove etc).
>
>> Also, on what use cases can your idea fit the kernel context? Or doesn't the
>> kernel already have the implementation yet?
>
> Sure it does, look at __crypto_memneq() for example, or more generally
> at any memcmp() or memcpy() implementation from the last 30 years, for
> example in glibc.
>

Thanks for explanation! I don't have any serious C[++] programming
background, so I was confused when I wrote the original reply.

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