[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57879] strncmp(str_a, str_b, N) gives an error for N=0

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #27, bug #57879 (project octave):

Yes, there is no reason to modify .hgignore, that part of this patch should be
removed.

I don't think we need to have an example in the NEWS file, just the
description of the change.

The rest of this looks pretty good. I think we need to do some rewording and
reformatting for the text, we can understand the difficulty if English is not
your first language.

I would like to see a test that shows a true return value with completely
unequal strings, for example


%!assert <*57879> (strncmp ("abc", "def", 0))


Note that you don't need to pass 'true' as the second argument to 'assert' if
the first argument is a logical test. For example


assert (1, 1)            ## test two arguments for equality
assert (1 == 1)          ## test a single expressing for truth
assert (1 == 1, true)    ## second argument isn't needed


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