bcmp(3)

bcmp3

Byte compare

Usage

#include <strings.h>

[[deprecated]] int bcmp(size_t n; const void s1[n], const void s2[n], size_t n);

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

bcmp() is identical to memcmp(3); use the latter instead.

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 15 times.

  1. 1.1–1.2
  2. 1.3–2.0
  3. 2.1–2.2
  4. 3.0
  5. 3.1
  6. 4.0
  7. 5.0
  8. 6.0
  9. 7
  10. 8
  11. 9
  12. 10
  13. 11
  14. 12
  15. 13
  16. Arch

Standards

None.

History

4.3BSD. Marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001; removed in POSIX.1-2008.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.