doc: od --strings: clarify operation
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1 /* Compare integer strings.
3 Copyright (C) 2005-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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18 /* Written by Paul Eggert. */
20 #include <config.h>
22 #include "strnumcmp-in.h"
24 #include <limits.h>
26 /* Compare strings A and B as integers without explicitly converting
27 them to machine numbers, to avoid overflow problems and perhaps
28 improve performance. */
30 int
31 strintcmp (char const *a, char const *b)
33 return numcompare (a, b, CHAR_MAX + 1, CHAR_MAX + 1);