From:	cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject:	Re: strcasecmp revisited
1 Dec 1998 08:24:27 -0800 :
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To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, cygwin developers <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 07:21:47AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>---Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>> My only concern is that some target or other may have code which
>> relies on the current behavior even though it is non-standard.
>> 
>
>But, that means the analyst is conforming to an undocumented feature. 
>I'd rather it have a standard behavior, and since cygwin is supposed
>to be ANSI/POSIX standardized IMHO you should make the change without
>regard to what someone might currently be doing that is non-standard.

I was actually referring to Cygnus's customers here.  newlib was designed
for reasons other than cygwin so when we make a change we have to be
careful not to break some customer's application.

-chris

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