Re: CVS commit: src

[David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:44:41AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > | memcmp() promises to be usable for alphabetical sorting which would make
 > | a constant-time algorithm needlessly complicated and is not of use for
 > | the intended applications.
 > 
 > memcmp() does not promise alphabetical sorting. It just promises to do the
 > byte comparison as unsigned so that the results are consistent. It is not
 > complicated to do this at all, for example:
 > 
 > int
 > consttime_memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n)
 > [snip]

so, I evidently missed this: what's "consttime" about this?

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David A. Holland
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