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Re: strstr speedup


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: strstr speedup
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:33:44 -0700
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According to Bruno Haible on 1/10/2008 8:04 PM:
|
| I dislike strcasestr because it _appears_ to be locale dependent if you test
| it with some old locales - but it does not work with the majority of locales
| in use today. The only reason to support it in gnulib is that BSD and glibc
| systems have it.

You raise some good points; programs worried about i18n should generally
avoid strcasestr.  However, gnulib already has a strcasestr module, so
should I go ahead and prepare a patch for strcasestr, c-strcasestr, and
memcasecmp to utilize str-two-way.h?

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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