Re: where to find the standard C library functions?

From: Adam Fineman (afineman_at_retupmoc.org)
Date: 11/11/03

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    Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:
    > On 11 Nov 2003 22:26:27 GMT wrote Jens.Toerring@physik.fu-berlin.de in
    > comp.os.linux.development.apps with <bornmj$1iambg$1@uni-berlin.de>
    >
    >>ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/
    >>
    >>Just pick any version you like;-)
    >
    >
    > I already found this, but there is no stricmp implementation in there.
    >
    That's because stricmp() is not part of standard C; it's an extension on
    some implementations.

    > Well, am I correct if I assume that stricmp does the same as strcmp but only a
    > toupper() or tolower() on each character for comparison?
    >
    It doesn't have to be implemented that way, but it's certainly one way
    to do it.

    > I need to use this functions in a kernel module and since I can't use glibc
    > for that I need to provide my own implementations. The easiest is to copy them
    > from the existing glibc as long as they contain no functions that I can't use
    > from the kernel.
    >

    Try looking around on Google for an implementation, rather than looking
    in specific libraries that may or may not implement it.

    HTH,

    - Adam 

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