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03/01/10 10:32
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#173677 - Yes, it's wrong - but...
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Kai Busuttil said:
//if user inputted password is not equal to the saved password then it's incorrect  
if (password[cnt2] != passINP[cnt2]);	  
{
flag = 0;
}
Obviously (sic) this code snippet is within a for loop in my code. 'passINP' is a char array where I'm storing each keypress the user does on a keypad and 'password' is another char array

Neil Kurzman said:
password[cnt2] != passINP[cnt2])

Is comparing the address of the arrays. which in this case are different.

Maarten Brock said:
Huh? Why do you assume that? Surely if both password and passINP are char arrays they can be compared this way.

That is what the OP said - although he hasn't shown the actual declarations.

Assuming the OP has correctly defined them as char arrays (as he said), then the comparison is correct.

Maarten said:
It might even result in smaller code size.

I think it's rather unlikely that a manually-coded 'C' for loop is going to be much (if any) better than the compiler's own library function?



List of 22 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Question about KEIL            01/01/70 00:00      
   It ain't how i would do it            01/01/70 00:00      
      Thank you!            01/01/70 00:00      
      using strncmp for a password check is a bug :^)            01/01/70 00:00      
         Yeah whatever            01/01/70 00:00      
         Interesting            01/01/70 00:00      
         Eh??            01/01/70 00:00      
            40 instead of 50000000            01/01/70 00:00      
   Nothing to do with Keil            01/01/70 00:00      
      Hmmm I see            01/01/70 00:00      
         Problem solved!            01/01/70 00:00      
            Do you undrestand why it did not work?            01/01/70 00:00      
               Wrong            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Yes, it's wrong - but...            01/01/70 00:00      
                     code size decrease            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Maybe            01/01/70 00:00      
                  After a nights sleep            01/01/70 00:00      
         Where it gets specific to Keil (or whatever)            01/01/70 00:00      
   Explain            01/01/70 00:00      
      Woops.            01/01/70 00:00      
         such a 'newb' error (sic)            01/01/70 00:00      
   Password application            01/01/70 00:00      

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