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Date: | Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:39:38 +0300 |
From: | egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru> |
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To: | Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: string.h vs string.h usage |
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Hi! Wednesday, 05 December, 2001 Pavel Tsekov ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com wrote: PT> egor duda wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> Wednesday, 05 December, 2001 Pavel Tsekov ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com wrote: >> >> SUSv2 mandates both <strings.h> and <string.h> >> >> mingw declares strcasecmp() in <string.h> while SUSv2 says it should >> be in <strings.h> PT> Afaik str[n]case is and BSD-ism :) it doesn't matter as long as standard defines it. please note that it doesn't marked as "obsolete" -- usage of those functions is supposedly pretty portable. PT> Btw here is what glibc on redhat 7.1 says. PT> /* We don't need and should not read this file if <string.h> was already PT> read. The one exception being that if __USE_BSD isn't defined, then PT> these aren't defined in string.h, so we need to define them here. */ of course it's up to mingw guys to decide what's the standard they're trying to comply with. but i suppose SUSv2 is the right way to go (excluding functions not defined in msvcrt/crtdll.dll, of course) Egor. mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
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