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@@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ sure that we worked on MSVC6.
We don't use strcat or strcpy or sprintf of any of those notoriously broken
old C functions. Use strlcat, strlcpy, or tor_snprintf/tor_asprintf instead.
+We don't call memcmp() directly. Use fast_memeq(), fast_memneq(),
+tor_memeq(), or tor_memneq() for most purposes.
+
Functions not to write
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