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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 07:39:46 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: egor duda <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
CC: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
Subject: Re: string.h vs string.h usage
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egor duda wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Wednesday, 05 December, 2001 Pavel Tsekov ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com wrote:
> 
> SUSv2 mandates both <strings.h> and <string.h>
> 

Wrong documentation base.  You must use MSDN for MinGW.

> mingw declares strcasecmp() in <string.h> while SUSv2 says it should
> be in <strings.h>
> 
> i believe mingw headers should be fixed/updated.
> 

No, MinGW headers are correct according to MSDN.  Perhaps the problem
here is that strcasecmp doesn't exist in the MinGW world.  From what I
find, strcasecmp is a BSD addition to even POSIX.  That said, MinGW
supports ANSI functions only.

Earnie.

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