GNU bug report logs - #11786
Use c_strcasecmp for portable ASCII case-insensitive comparison

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:47:08 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 11786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 11786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dmantipov <at> yandex.ru, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: bug#11786: Use c_strcasecmp for portable ASCII case-insensitive
	comparison
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:21:12 +0300

> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:25:17 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, dmantipov <at> yandex.ru, 
>  11786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> c_strcasecmp does what you're saying (it uses c_tolower), and it's
> off-the-shelf code

So is xstrcasecmp.

> This shrinks and simplifies the source code of Emacs proper.

Your change neither shrinks nor simplifies anything.  It does the
exact opposite, in fact.
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