Re: All time favorite: strcasecmp

csaba.raduly-j34lQMj1tz/[email protected] Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:15:45 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ide.emx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 29/01/2003 18:31:08 emx-admin wrote:

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

Because you cannot guarantee that everybody will change their
EMX headers. Then it'll work for you (and me), but it won't work
for others.

strcasecmp is not present in every standard library. Programs
that use it must be prepared to make do if it's not available.
That's what ./configure is supposed to find out and set.

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