The return values for as well as the arguments for strcmp() are defined by
the ANSI and ISO specifications.
On 5 Apr 2000, at 13:45, Jon 'maddog' Hall, Executive Director, Li wrote:
> >I can only guess at the reason(s) for the omission...
>
> I seem to remember (eons ago) that BSD and Sys 3 had different return values
> for non-equal strings.
>
> Sys 3.0 had one set of return values, with "zero" as "equal"
>
> BSD had another set of return values, with "zero" as "equal"
>
> This may be the answer why the book was not as definite as the man pages
> for your particular system.
>
> md
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