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update nearly all FSF copyright year lists to include 2010 Use the same procedure as for 2009, outlined in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/20081
author Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
date Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:31:12 +0100
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/* check-version.h --- Check version string compatibility.
   Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008,
   2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
   any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
   Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */

/* Written by Simon Josefsson.  This interface is influenced by
   gcry_check_version from Werner Koch's Libgcrypt.  Paul Eggert
   suggested the use of strverscmp to simplify implementation. */

#include <config.h>

#include <stddef.h>
#include <string.h>

/* Get specification. */
#include "check-version.h"

/* Check that the version of the library (i.e., the CPP symbol VERSION)
 * is at minimum the requested one in REQ_VERSION (typically found in
 * a header file) and return the version string.  Return NULL if the
 * condition is not satisfied.  If a NULL is passed to this function,
 * no check is done, but the version string is simply returned.
 */
const char *
check_version (const char *req_version)
{
  if (!req_version || strverscmp (req_version, VERSION) <= 0)
    return VERSION;

  return NULL;
}