Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 16:47:39 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: char != unsigned char... sometimes, sigh
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On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Vik Heyndrickx wrote:

> If we could have two versions of the C library, one with no such
> error/bug checking at all and one with a thorough checking against all
> kind of idiocyncrasies.

I suppose we could have the safer behavior in the functions, whereas the 
macros would be faster but less safe.  People who want the safe version 
would then need to #undef isalpha etc.

DJ, is there anything that prevents us from making the functions behave 
in a slightly different manner?