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+.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
+.\" Chris Torek.
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+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" from: @(#)bcmp.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\" $NetBSD: bcmp.3,v 1.14 2012/05/05 21:24:19 dholland Exp $
+.\"
+.Dd May 5, 2012
+.Dt BCMP 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm bcmp
+.Nd compare byte string
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In strings.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn bcmp "const void *b1" "const void *b2" "size_t len"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn bcmp
+function
+compares byte string
+.Fa b1
+against byte string
+.Fa b2 ,
+returning zero if they are identical, non-zero otherwise.
+Both strings are assumed to be
+.Fa len
+bytes long.
+Zero-length strings are always identical.
+.Pp
+The strings may overlap.
+.Pp
+This function is obsolete.
+The equivalent function
+.Xr memcmp 3
+should be used instead.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr memcmp 3 ,
+.Xr strcasecmp 3 ,
+.Xr strcmp 3 ,
+.Xr strcoll 3 ,
+.Xr strxfrm 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn bcmp
+function conforms to
+.St -p1003.1-2001 .
+The
+.St -p1003.1-2004
+revision marked it as legacy and recommended the use of
+.Xr memcmp 3
+instead.
+The
+.St -p1003.1-2008
+revision removed
+.Fn bcmp
+from the specification.
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Fn bcmp
+function first appeared in
+.Bx 4.2 .