Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 23:21:47 +0100
From: Gordon Beaton  <gordon AT Minsk DOT DoCS DOT UU DOT SE>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: STRCMP (problem?)


>
>  Isn't strcmp supposed to return numbers <0,=0,>0 as results?
>

It does, at least for me. (gcc 2.2.2)

Are you really sure those are the values you're getting?
This is what I get:

strcmp("number","number") = 0 
strcmp("number","number#") = -35 
strcmp("is","what") = -14 
strcmp("was","that") = 3 

The return value seems to be the ascii value difference at the first 
character mismatch -- 'i'-'w' = -14, 'w'-'t' = 3, etc.

Have you checked that you're not doing something with another
variable that could corrupt stat? (like exceeding array bounds 
or assigning a float value to an int...)

/gordon

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