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strcasecmp: Work around Solaris, Cygwin bug. * lib/strings.in.h (strcasecmp): Consider REPLACE_STRCASECMP. Use the usual idioms. * m4/strings_h.m4 (gl_STRINGS_H_DEFAULTS): Initialize REPLACE_STRCASECMP. * m4/strcasecmp.m4 (gl_STRCASECMP_WORKS): New macro. (gl_FUNC_STRCASECMP): Invoke it. Set REPLACE_STRCASECMP. * modules/strcasecmp (configure.ac): Consider REPLACE_STRCASECMP. * modules/strings-h (Makefile.am): Substitute REPLACE_STRCASECMP. * doc/posix-functions/strcasecmp.texi: Mention the Solaris, Cygwin bug.
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@node strcasecmp @subsection @code{strcasecmp} @findex strcasecmp POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/strcasecmp.html} Gnulib module: strcasecmp @mindex strcasecmp Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item This function is missing on some platforms: MSVC 14. @item This function uses the case mappings of a wrong locale on some platforms: Solaris 11.4, @c https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2025-February/257347.html Cygwin 3.5.6. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item This function cannot work correctly on character strings in multibyte locales. @mindex mbscasecmp Gnulib provides an alternative function @code{mbscasecmp} that does a case insensitive comparison of character strings and that works in all locales. @end itemize