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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:52:25 +0200
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To: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE]strn(case)cmp supporting a negative length as its
 third paramter
From: nikita.ppv@googlemail.com (Nikita Popov)

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Perhaps it should be linked in the SeeAlso from strncmp and the rest?
I added substr_compare to the See Also sections of strcmp, strcasecmp,
strncmp and strncasecmp.

Apart from that: Now that we know that a function for doing such
comparisons exists, a change to strncmp doesn't make much sense
anymore. Only useless BC break.