From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: strcasecmp revisited
30 Nov 1998 18:05:51 -0800
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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 07:02:04PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> That is almost what is happening now except for the tolower case.  Hmm.
>> I just checked this behavior on Linux and it appears that I was just
>> misinterpreting what was going on here.  Linux apparently does compare
>> a non-alpha character to the lowercased character.  That's all it
>> does.  So, my change was actually wrong.
>
>DJGPP compares the tolower()d characters (strcasecmp is a stub that
>chains to stricmp).  Nobody has complained yet :-)

My only concern is that some target or other may have code which
relies on the current behavior even though it is non-standard.

cgf