+
+/* Here follows a specialised variants of bn_cmp_words(). It has the
+ property of performing the operation on arrays of different sizes.
+ The sizes of those arrays is expressed through cl, which is the
+ common length ( basicall, min(len(a),len(b)) ), and dl, which is the
+ delta between the two lengths, calculated as len(a)-len(b).
+ All lengths are the number of BN_ULONGs... */
+
+int bn_cmp_part_words(const BN_ULONG *a, const BN_ULONG *b,
+ int cl, int dl)
+ {
+ int n,i;
+ n = cl-1;
+
+ if (dl < 0)
+ {
+ for (i=dl; i<0; i++)
+ {
+ if (b[n-i] != 0)
+ return -1; /* a < b */
+ }
+ }
+ if (dl > 0)
+ {
+ for (i=dl; i>0; i--)
+ {
+ if (a[n+i] != 0)
+ return 1; /* a > b */
+ }
+ }
+ return bn_cmp_words(a,b,cl);
+ }