Re: All time favorite: strcasecmp

Hi!

  Why not just define somewhere in emx header #define strcasecmp(a, b) stricmp((a), (b)) right now?

On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:54:42 +0100, Andreas Buening wrote:

>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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