re: Testing 7.0 Beta: FFS still very slow when creating files

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> > 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.