fmemcmp(3)

✨ NAME ✨

hey bestie, welcome to fmemcmp(3) from the Library Functions Manual 💖

fmemcmp — fuzzy comparison of two memory areas. it's literally the fuzzy-match bestie for raw memory. no cap. 🦋

🎀 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);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so fmemcmp() compares the two memory areas: the size1 bytes pointed to by data1, and the size2 bytes pointed to by data2. that's the whole job. it's giving "are these two chunks of memory alike or not?" 💅

🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

fmemcmp returns a floating point value between 0.0 and FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL. here's the tea:

• 0.0 means the memory areas are utterly un-alike. not even a little bit. 💀
• FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL means the memory areas are identical. twins. periodt. 👑
• a value of more than FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD (it lies between 0.0 and FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL) would be considered "similar" by most people. so if you're over the threshold, the girlies are calling it similar. 🫶
• 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

💜 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

mwah 💋 that's a wrap on fmemcmp(3) from fstrcmp version 0.7, copyright 2009 Peter Miller (and the 1988-2009 Free Software Foundation era, too). stay fuzzy, bestie! 🎀✨