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1 /* Locale-specific memory comparison.
2 Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7 any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
18 /* Contributed by Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>. */
20 #if HAVE_CONFIG_H
21 # include <config.h>
22 #endif
24 #if HAVE_STRING_H
25 # include <string.h>
26 #endif
28 /* Compare S1 (with length S1LEN) and S2 (with length S2LEN) according
29 to the LC_COLLATE locale. S1 and S2 do not overlap, and are not
30 adjacent. Temporarily modify the bytes after S1 and S2, but
31 restore their original contents before returning. */
32 int
33 memcoll (char *s1, size_t s1len, char *s2, size_t s2len)
35 int diff;
36 char n1 = s1[s1len];
37 char n2 = s2[s2len];
39 s1[s1len++] = '\0';
40 s2[s2len++] = '\0';
42 while (! (diff = strcoll (s1, s2)))
44 /* strcoll found no difference, but perhaps it was fooled by NUL
45 characters in the data. Work around this problem by advancing
46 past the NUL chars. */
47 size_t size1 = strlen (s1) + 1;
48 size_t size2 = strlen (s2) + 1;
49 s1 += size1;
50 s2 += size2;
51 s1len -= size1;
52 s2len -= size2;
54 if (s1len == 0)
56 if (s2len != 0)
57 diff = -1;
58 break;
60 else if (s2len == 0)
62 diff = 1;
63 break;
67 s1[s1len - 1] = n1;
68 s2[s2len - 1] = n2;
70 return diff;