Changeset 90478727 in mainline for boot/generic/src/str.c

Timestamp:

2012-08-12T11:46:44Z (12 years ago)

Author:

Maurizio Lombardi <m.lombardi85@…>

Branches:

lfn, master, serial, ticket/834-toolchain-update, topic/msim-upgrade, topic/simplify-dev-export

Children:

41b764b7

Parents:

e1e4192 (diff), 371cb6c (diff)
Note: this is a merge changeset, the changes displayed below correspond to the merge itself.
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Message:

merge mainline changes

File:

• boot/generic/src/str.c (modified) (1 diff)

boot/generic/src/str.c

@@ -354 +354 @@
  *
  * Do a char-by-char comparison of two NULL-terminated strings.
- * The strings are considered equal iff they consist of the same
- * characters on the minimum of their lengths.
+ * The strings are considered equal iff their length is equal
+ * and both strings consist of the same sequence of characters.
+ *
+ * A string S1 is less than another string S2 if it has a character with
+ * lower value at the first character position where the strings differ.
+ * If the strings differ in length, the shorter one is treated as if
+ * padded by characters with a value of zero.
  *
  * @param s1 First string to compare.
  * @param s2 Second string to compare.
  *
- * @return 0 if the strings are equal, -1 if first is smaller,
- *         1 if second smaller.
+ * @return 0 if the strings are equal, -1 if the first is less than the second,
+ *         1 if the second is less than the first.
  *
  */