Re: [PATCH] lib/string.c: make strncmp() smaller
From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Sat Feb 09 2019 - 08:02:14 EST
On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 01:31:49AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 10:34 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > - return c1 < c2 ? -1 : 1;
> > + return c1 - c2;
>
> This does change the return value for most comparisons.
It does.
> Wasn't there a specific reason for -1 and 1?
Maybe. Spec says anything positive or negative works.