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27.Dd $Mdocdate: April 23 2018 $
28.Dt MEMCMP 9
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm skpc ,
32.Nm scanc ,
33.Nm bcmp ,
34.Nm timingsafe_bcmp ,
35.Nm memchr ,
36.Nm memcmp
37.Nd kernel library byte string routines
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In lib/libkern/libkern.h
40.Ft int
41.Fn skpc "int mask" "size_t size" "u_char *cp"
42.Ft int
43.Fn scanc "u_int size" "const u_char *cp" "const u_char *table" "int mask"
44.Ft int
45.Fn bcmp "const void *b1" "const void *b2" "size_t len"
46.Ft int
47.Fn timingsafe_bcmp "const void *b1" "const void *b2" "size_t len"
48.Ft void *
49.Fn memchr "const void *b" "int c" "size_t len"
50.Ft int
51.Fn memcmp "const void *b1" "const void *b2" "size_t len"
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53The
54.Fn skpc
55function locates the first unsigned character of value different than
56.Fa mask
57inside the string
58.Fa cp .
59.Pp
60The
61.Fn scanc
62function expects a string of indexes into the table
63.Fa table .
64Each table element is bitwise ANDed against
65.Fa mask .
66.Pp
67.Fn skpc
68and
69.Fn scanc
70expect the string to be of size
71.Fa size ,
72and return the index relative to the end of the string where the match
73occurred, or zero if
74.Fa mask
75is not present in the string.
76.Pp
77The remaining functions have the same semantics as their libc counterparts,
78.Xr bcmp 3 ,
79.Xr timingsafe_bcmp 3 ,
80.Xr memchr 3 ,
81and
82.Xr memcmp 3 .
83.Sh STANDARDS
84The
85.Fn memchr
86and
87.Fn memcmp
88functions conform to
89.St -ansiC .
90.Sh HISTORY
91The
92.Fn skpc
93and
94.Fn scanc
95functions are based on vax instructions of the same name.
96