/* Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.

The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If
not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.  */

#include <ansidecl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <memcopy.h>

/* Compare no more than N characters of S1 and S2,
   returning less than, equal to or greater than zero
   if S1 is lexiographically less than, equal to or
   greater than S2.  */
int
DEFUN(strncmp, (s1, s2, n),
      CONST char *s1 AND CONST char *s2 AND size_t n)
{
  unsigned reg_char c1 = '\0';
  unsigned reg_char c2 = '\0';

  if (n >= 4)
    {
      size_t n4 = n >> 2;
      do
	{
	  c1 = (unsigned char) *s1++;
	  c2 = (unsigned char) *s2++;
	  if (c1 == '\0' || c1 != c2)
	    return c1 - c2;
	  c1 = (unsigned char) *s1++;
	  c2 = (unsigned char) *s2++;
	  if (c1 == '\0' || c1 != c2)
	    return c1 - c2;
	  c1 = (unsigned char) *s1++;
	  c2 = (unsigned char) *s2++;
	  if (c1 == '\0' || c1 != c2)
	    return c1 - c2;
	  c1 = (unsigned char) *s1++;
	  c2 = (unsigned char) *s2++;
	  if (c1 == '\0' || c1 != c2)
	    return c1 - c2;
	} while (--n4 > 0);
      n &= 3;
    }

  while (n > 0)
    {
      c1 = (unsigned char) *s1++;
      c2 = (unsigned char) *s2++;
      if (c1 == '\0' || c1 != c2)
	return c1 - c2;
      n--;
    }

  return c1 - c2;
}