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/*
 * Written by Matthias Drochner <drochner@NetBSD.org>.
 * Public domain.
 */

#ifndef CONSTTIME_MEMEQUAL_H
#define CONSTTIME_MEMEQUAL_H
inline static int
consttime_memequal(const void *b1, const void *b2, size_t len)
{
	const unsigned char *c1 = b1, *c2 = b2;
	unsigned int res = 0;

	while (len--)
		res |= *c1++ ^ *c2++;

	/*
	 * Map 0 to 1 and [1, 256) to 0 using only constant-time
	 * arithmetic.
	 *
	 * This is not simply `!res' because although many CPUs support
	 * branchless conditional moves and many compilers will take
	 * advantage of them, certain compilers generate branches on
	 * certain CPUs for `!res'.
	 */
	return (1 & ((res - 1) >> 8));
}
#endif /* CONSTTIME_MEMEQUAL_H */