gnutls_memcmp(3)

gnutls_memcmp3

Api function

Usage

#include <gnutls/gnutls.h>

int gnutls_memcmp(const void * s1, const void * s2, size_t n);

Arguments

const void * s1

the first address to compare

const void * s2

the second address to compare

size_t n

the size of memory to compare

Overview

This function will operate similarly to memcmp(), but will operate on time that depends only on the size of the string. That is will not return early if the strings don't match on the first byte.

Returns

non zero on difference and zero if the buffers are identical.

Since

3.4.0

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
Home page: https://www.gnutls.org

From gnutls 3.8.13-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.