It almost smells like an obfuscated tactic to evade review. In a rush a reviewer might see strncmp and think "Not using strcmp. Check." without going all the

It almost smells like an obfuscated tactic to evade review. In a rush a reviewer might see strncmp and think "Not using strcmp. Check." without going all the way to consider the strlen as argument, which really should have been a constant and the smoking gun.