1 /* Locale-specific memory comparison.
3 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
17 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
19 /* Contributed by Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>. */
27 #define _(msgid) gettext (msgid)
35 /* Compare S1 (with length S1LEN) and S2 (with length S2LEN) according
36 to the LC_COLLATE locale. S1 and S2 do not overlap, and are not
37 adjacent. Temporarily modify the bytes after S1 and S2, but
38 restore their original contents before returning. Report an error
39 and exit if there is an error. */
42 xmemcoll (char *s1, size_t s1len, char *s2, size_t s2len)
44 int diff = memcoll (s1, s1len, s2, s2len);
45 int collation_errno = errno;
49 error (0, collation_errno, _("string comparison failed"));
50 error (0, 0, _("Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem."));
51 error (exit_failure, 0,
52 _("The strings compared were %s and %s."),
53 quotearg_n_style_mem (0, locale_quoting_style, s1, s1len),
54 quotearg_n_style_mem (1, locale_quoting_style, s2, s2len));