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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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dmantipov <at> yandex.ru, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: bug#11786: Use c_strcasecmp for portable ASCII case-insensitive comparison
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:28:00 -0700

On 06/26/2012 11:21 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> So is xstrcasecmp.

And etags_strcasecmp.  And lwlib_strcasecmp.

>> > This shrinks and simplifies the source code of Emacs proper.
> Your change neither shrinks nor simplifies anything.

Sure it does.  It coalesces three instances of the
same code into one.  And it shrinks the source of
Emacs proper (i.e., the part that isn't automatically
generated).
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