All time favorite: strcasecmp

Hello!

There are two functions strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() that are
used by a lot of different software applications in the Unix
world. They're equivalent to stricmp() and strnicmp(), they're
(to my knowledge) not standardized but supported by a lot of
Unix systems, they're popular, they're trivial and they prevent
a lot of software packages from successful compilation.
They caused long discussions about how to handle this issue
which ranges from -Dstrcasecmp=stricmp to #ifdef __EMX__
statements or personally modified header files, one solution
is uglier than the other one.

To get rid of this problem I suggest the following. Please, add
the following lines to string.h:

int strcasecmp (__const__ char *, __const__ char *);
int strncasecmp (__const__ char *, __const__ char *, size_t);

And finally, add two entry points of this name to the emx
libraries. This might not even imply that the emx*.dll files
have to be changed, adding a "forward" declaration like

EXPORTS
  strcasecmp = stricmp

to the module definition file so that only the import libraries
are affected. Do you think anything like this can make it into
the next emx release?


Bye,
Andreas

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