diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2692dccc..f7cd5255 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Apr 20 19:40:37 CEST 2004 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* parser.c: killing the strncmp vs. memcmp controversy and #140593
+
 Tue Apr 20 13:27:06 CEST 2004 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* include/libxml/SAX2.h: Kasimier Buchcik pointed out some 
diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index 76629298..0fbf719d 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -7580,7 +7580,7 @@ xmlParseEndTag2(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, const xmlChar *prefix,
     }
     SKIP(2);
 
-    if ((tlen > 0) && (memcmp(ctxt->input->cur, ctxt->name, tlen) == 0)) {
+    if ((tlen > 0) && (strncmp(ctxt->input->cur, ctxt->name, tlen) == 0)) {
         if (ctxt->input->cur[tlen] == '>') {
 	    ctxt->input->cur += tlen + 1;
 	    goto done;