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re: Testing 7.0 Beta: FFS still very slow when creating files
> > Sounds reasonable to me, although it looks like GCC's old builtin
> > memcmp expansion actually failed to implement our specification: it
> > returns -1, 0, or +1, like your patch, rather than the difference of
> > the first differing bytes or zero as our man page specifies. For most
> > uses it doesn't matter, of course, but we ought to make sure to follow
> > our own specification.
>
> memcmp is only supposed to provide the correct sign, not the difference.
true, but that's not what memcmp(9) says. however, unless we have a
good reason, i think we should change our docs to fit.
.mrg.
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