From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/libiberty] Fix documentation issues in filename_cmp.c
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u6488nkbm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070407173500.GC24650@caradoc.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:35:00 -0400)
> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:35:00 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,
> gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> In the POSIX locale, strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() shall behave as if
> the strings had been converted to lowercase and then a byte comparison
> performed. The results are unspecified in other locales.
That's what I suspected.
> 2. Glibc's strcasecmp uses tolower and honors LC_COLLATE.
But the version in libiberty only handles ASCII.
> Which behavior do we want here, anyway? I'm not sure...
I think we should fold only ASCII characters, since it's consistent
with libiberty's strcasecmp.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-07 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-05 17:27 Joel Brobecker
2007-04-05 18:36 ` DJ Delorie
2007-04-06 6:02 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-04-05 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-06 6:10 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-04-06 9:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-06 10:00 ` Dave Korn
2007-04-07 17:35 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-04-07 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-04-11 7:24 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-04-11 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-11 20:33 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2007-05-03 15:36 ` [RFA/libiberty] use TOLOWER instead of tolower " Joel Brobecker
2007-05-03 16:31 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2007-05-03 23:40 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-05-04 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-11 7:27 ` [RFA/libiberty] Fix documentation issues " Joel Brobecker
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