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   Message 2,741 of 4,675   
   Rick C. Hodgin to Rod Pemberton   
   Re: Optimize stricmp() algorithm (casele   
   27 Jun 17 13:12:45   
   
   From: rick.c.hodgin@nospicedham.gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 4:10:06 PM UTC-4, Rod Pemberton wrote:   
   > On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 05:40:16 -0700 (PDT)   
   > "Rick C. Hodgin"  wrote:   
   > > > 	.cfi_endproc   
   > > I am unfamiliar with the .cfi_ forms.  What are they?   
   >   
   > I don't know.  I've only been using Linux for a few years.  I've done   
   > the majority of my personal code development on DOS.  I've been meaning   
   > to adapt to Linux as time permits.   
      
   I think I figured out from context that they are hints provided   
   to the assembler or linker to do certain things, but aren't really   
   part of the generated asm code logic.   
      
   Thank you,   
   Rick C. Hodgin   
      
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