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Re: [PATCH] Fix declaration guard for strcasecmp()


On 10/29/2014 12:54 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> 
> Based on [1], I think that strcasecmp() should be declared by string.h
> if _BSD_VISIBLE or _POSIX_VISIBLE, the same as strncasecmp() a few lines
> further down.

POSIX doesn't require strcasecmp or strncasecmp to be visible in
<string.h> (they are only mandatory in <strings.h>).  But it also
permits <string.h> to declare anything it wants in the str* namespace,
so this is still standards compliant, and closer to what lazy
programmers have gotten used to with glibc.

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