Efficient STRing CoMPares?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <MARC.91Mar20080239 at marc.watson.ibm.com> marc at arnor.UUCP (Marc Auslander) writes:
>A correct compiler cannot inline strcmp unless it is given
>extralingual permission to do so - for example in a pragma or by
>defining some reserved symbol or by some other means.  This is because
>it is legal to combine a program which uses strcmp with another which
>defines it to by anything at all!

In ANSI C it is *not* legal for a program to redefine the standard
library functions (not as external identifiers anyway), so the inlining
is, subject to some care about fine points, legitimate.
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