[MPlayer-dev-eng] [patch] stricmp

Ingo Brückl ib at wupperonline.de
Thu Jan 15 18:40:37 CET 2015


Reimar Döffinger wrote on Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:19:44 +0100:

>>Stephen Sheldon wrote on Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:45:38 -0800:
>>
>> Something has changed in Cygwin, and it no longer has a definition
>> for "stricmp".

> To be honest I agree with Nicolas here: I see no reason to use stricmp
> even the whole rest of the code base uses strcasecmp for the same
> effect, especially not if it involves ugly ifdefs...

I had in mind people maybe using a more Windows-like compiler that would only
have stricmp (which is the Windows standard, AFAIK) but seemingly we are only
supporting Cygwin, MinGW and Wine, so this consideration seems irrelevant.

Ingo


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