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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Torsten Werner
  • Date: 2005-01-09 22:58:21 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.1 upstream)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20050109225821-473xr8vhgugxxx5j
Tags: 3.0-12
http://bugs.debian.org/255869
changed configure.in to build scilab's own malloc.o, closes: #255869

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
 
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<!DOCTYPE MAN SYSTEM "../../manrev.dtd">
 
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<MAN>
 
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  <LANGUAGE>eng</LANGUAGE>
 
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  <TITLE>mtlb_strcmp</TITLE>
 
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  <TYPE>M2SCI function</TYPE>
 
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  <DATE>April 2004</DATE>
 
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  <SHORT_DESCRIPTION name="mtlb_strcmp">Matlab strcmp emulation function</SHORT_DESCRIPTION>
 
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  <DESCRIPTION>
 
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    <P>There is no Scilab function equivalent for Matlab <VERB>strcmp</VERB>, there is equivalent instructions.</P>
 
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    <P>
 
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    The function <VERB>mtlb_strcmp(A,B)</VERB> is used by
 
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    <VERB>mfile2sci</VERB> to replace <VERB>strcmp(A,B)</VERB> when it was not
 
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    possible to know what were the inputs while porting Matlab code to Scilab. This function will
 
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    determine the correct semantic at run time. If you want to have a
 
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    more efficient code it is possible to replace <VERB>mtlb_strcmp</VERB> calls:
 
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    </P>
 
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    <DESCRIPTION_INDENT>
 
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    <DESCRIPTION_ITEM>
 
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    <ITEMIZE>
 
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      <ITEM>
 
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        <SP>
 
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        If <VERB>A</VERB> and <VERB>B</VERB> are character strings
 
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        <VERB>mtlb_strcmp(A,B)</VERB> may be replaced by <VERB>A==B</VERB>
 
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        </SP>
 
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      </ITEM>
 
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      <ITEM>
 
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        <SP>
 
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        If <VERB>A</VERB> and/or <VERB>B</VERB> is not a character string
 
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        <VERB>mtlb_strcmp(A,B)</VERB> may be replaced by <VERB>0</VERB>
 
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        </SP>
 
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      </ITEM>
 
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    </ITEMIZE>
 
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    </DESCRIPTION_ITEM>
 
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    </DESCRIPTION_INDENT>
 
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    <P>Caution: <VERB>mtlb_strcmp</VERB> has not to be used for hand coded functions.</P>
 
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  </DESCRIPTION>
 
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  <AUTHORS>
 
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    <AUTHORS_ITEM>V.C.</AUTHORS_ITEM>
 
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  </AUTHORS>
 
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</MAN>