Really add consttime_memequal

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diff --git a/compat/consttime_memequal.h b/compat/consttime_memequal.h
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+/*
+ * Written by Matthias Drochner <drochner@NetBSD.org>.
+ * Public domain.
+ */
+
+#ifndef CONSTTIME_MEMEQUAL_H
+#define CONSTTIME_MEMEQUAL_H
+inline static int
+consttime_memequal(const void *b1, const void *b2, size_t len)
+{
+	const unsigned char *c1 = b1, *c2 = b2;
+	unsigned int res = 0;
+
+	while (len--)
+		res |= *c1++ ^ *c2++;
+
+	/*
+	 * Map 0 to 1 and [1, 256) to 0 using only constant-time
+	 * arithmetic.
+	 *
+	 * This is not simply `!res' because although many CPUs support
+	 * branchless conditional moves and many compilers will take
+	 * advantage of them, certain compilers generate branches on
+	 * certain CPUs for `!res'.
+	 */
+	return (1 & ((res - 1) >> 8));
+}
+#endif /* CONSTTIME_MEMEQUAL_H */