GNU bug report logs - #74196
maint: assume proper behavior of tolower

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Reported by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 23:48:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gzip <at> gnu.org
Subject: maint: assume proper behavior of tolower
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 15:47:22 -0800

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Some pre-standard C implementations of tolower had undefined behavior if
the character passed to it was not an uppercase character.

This patch removes the isupper check before calling tolower since any
reasonable platform will behave correctly.

Collin


[0001-maint-assume-proper-behavior-of-tolower.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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