Re: [Libclc-developers] new string functions: clc_str{n}{case}comm()

[Bryan D. <bd...@bd...>]

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On Sunday 23 March 2003 11:16 am, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Bj=F8rn Augestad writes:
> > But the functions without a length parameter may have its place in
> > libclc. We can just exclude the problematic ones. :-)
>
> That's why I wrote "Source code for clc_strncasecomm() follows.  The
> others are for the time being left as an exercise for the reader."
> I just posted the most complicated one, the others can be implemented
> by removing some tests or function calls.
>
> > Here is one possible implementation, submitted for the sake of
> > discussion only.
> >
> > (...)
> >
> > size_t clc_strcomm(const char* s1, const char* s2)
>
> Well, I already said why I think it's wrong to return size_t:
> I think equal strings should return -1.

If the strings have a common part at least LONG_MAX characters long, we have
undefined behavior. Not so with size_t.
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