Re: Case-insensitive targets

[Gisle Vanem]

Paul Smith wrote:

> Then there's the question of case-preserving or not.  To be case-
> preserving, make would have to be doing all string searches and
> comparisons using case-insensitive implementations which would be a lot
> of code churn.  And we would have to care a lot more about
> internationalization since case comparison is highly locale-specific.

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

> > Besides, there seems to be a mem-leak in that loop.
>
> I see no mem leak in that function...?

Ops, you're right. But there are tons of them elsewhere.
Won't hurt and maybe intentional. I removed the mentioned
'assert()' and see no aborts anywhere else.

But I made a little <dmalloc.h> implementation using MSVC's
<CrtDbg.h> and dumped the leaks right before 'exit()' in
main.c's 'die()'. The simple case-insensitive-win.mak in my
1st email shows 4410 leaks!

PS. the makefile and diff used for this _DEBUG-mode test is at:
  https://gist.github.com/gvanem/e8d2db10aa6899c752e5df032fd66785

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