fmemcmp - fuzzy comparison of two memory areas
Contents
Copyright
fstrcmp version 0.7
Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Miller
Peter Miller <pmiller@opensource.org.au>
The comparison code is derived from the fuzzy comparison functions in GNU Gettext 0.17. The GNU Gettext
comparison functions were, in turn, derived from GNU Diff 2.7.
Copyright (C) 1988-2009 Free Software Foundation
fmemcmp(3)
Description
The fmemcmp() function compares the two memory areas, the size1 bytes pointed to by data1 and the size2
bytes pointed to by data2.
Name
fmemcmp - fuzzy comparison of two memory areas
Return Value
The fmemcmp function returns a floating point value between 0.0 and FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL. A value of 0.0
means the memory areas are utterly un‐alike. A value of FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL means the memory areas are
identical. A value of more than FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD (it lies between 0.0 and FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL) would be
considered "similar" by most people.
A value of FSTRCMP_ERROR (always negative) indicates a malloc(3) failure.
See Also
fmemcmpi(3) fuzzy comparison of two memory areas fstrcmp(3) fuzzy comparison of two strings memcmp(3) compare memory areas
Synopsis
#include <fstrcmp.h>
#define FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL
#define FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD
#define FSTRCMP_ERROR
double fmemcmp(const void *data1, size_t size1, const void *data2, size_t size2);
