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Subject: Re: string.h vs string.h usage
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 23:50:47 +1100
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From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>


> egor duda wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Wednesday, 05 December, 2001 Pavel Tsekov ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com wrote:
> >
> > SUSv2 mandates both <strings.h> and <string.h>
> >
>
> Wrong documentation base.  You must use MSDN for MinGW.
>
> > mingw declares strcasecmp() in <string.h> while SUSv2 says it should
> > be in <strings.h>
> >
> > i believe mingw headers should be fixed/updated.
> >
>
> No, MinGW headers are correct according to MSDN.  Perhaps the problem
> here is that strcasecmp doesn't exist in the MinGW world.  From what I
> find, strcasecmp is a BSD addition to even POSIX.  That said, MinGW
> supports ANSI functions only.

I'll change setup to use <string.h> globally then.

If need be we can roll our own strcasecmp.

Rob