(split) LDP_man-pages: update original to v3.34.

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man3 / memcmp.3

diff --git a/original/man3/memcmp.3 b/original/man3/memcmp.3
index 6d9975b..853a2bf 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man3/memcmp.3
+++ b/original/man3/memcmp.3
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"     Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
 .\"     386BSD man pages
 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:55:27 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
-.TH MEMCMP 3  1993-04-10 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH MEMCMP 3  2011-09-14 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 memcmp \- compare memory areas
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ memcmp \- compare memory areas
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR memcmp ()
-function compares the first \fIn\fP bytes of the
-memory areas \fIs1\fP and \fIs2\fP.
+function compares the first \fIn\fP bytes (each interpreted as
+.IR "unsigned char" )
+of the memory areas \fIs1\fP and \fIs2\fP.
 It returns an integer less than,
 equal to, or greater than zero if \fIs1\fP is found, respectively, to
 be less than, to match, or be greater than \fIs2\fP.