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Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1


On Oct 23 17:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 23 08:14, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 10/23/2014 08:10 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> > > Apparently stricmp() is no longer in the library:
> > > 
> > > ClubLog.cpp:593:34: error: 'stricmp' was not declared in this scope
> > >          if (!stricmp(field,"call")) {
> > > 
> > > I realize that stricmp() is non-standard.  Is this going to be the
> > > situation going forward with 1.7.33+?  If so, what's the best
> > > workaround?
> > 
> > Use the standard strcasecmp() from <strings.h> instead.
> 
> ACK.

More exact:  stricmp is still available as exported symbol, and it will
be available for a long time, to make sure existing executables continue
to run.  stricmp will just not be provided by the standard header files
anymore.


Corinna

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