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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.


  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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