From: khan@xraylith.wisc.edu (Mumit Khan) Subject: Re: B19, EGCS 1.1: Strcasecmp uses uppercase? 27 Nov 1998 19:11:22 -0800 Message-ID: <199811272053.OAA21813.cygnus.gnu-win32@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> References: <3.0.5.32.19981127103534.00947a10@pop.cs.uu.nl> To: Steven van Dijk Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Steven van Dijk writes: > > #include > #include > > main() > { > char * s1 = "String"; > char * s2 = "S_"; > > printf("Comparing s1 with s2 returns: %d\n", strcasecmp(s1,s2)); > } > > On my system (using b19, no patches and EGCS 1.1) I get: > Comparing s1 with s2 returns: -11 > > and on the Unix system I get: > Comparing s1 with s2 returns: 21 This is a bug in newlib string handling routines. I'll submit a patch to the cygwin folks. Thanks for pointing it out with a test case. There is a workaround until the patch makes it in -- always specify the *longer* string as the *second* argument. Regards, Mumit - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".