Re: [Mingw-users] Need help with C99

[JonY <10...@gm...>]

Greg Chicares wrote:
> On 2008-09-05 10:46Z, JonY wrote:
>> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>>> JonY wrote:
>>>
>>>> Some prototype definitions like strcasecmp and _stricmp are missing when
>>>> using gcc under C99 mode.
>>> Is strcasecmp C99? I didn't think it was.
>
> C99 mentions neither of those functions.
>
>> So glibc is at fault?
>> Under Linux:
>> # gcc -std=c99 -E /usr/include/strings.h |grep strcasecmp
>> extern int strcasecmp (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2)
>
> "strings.h" is a POSIX header:
>    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/strings.h.html
> C99 isn't POSIX; it mentions no such header.
>

I was confused when I saw strings.h from MinGW including string.h only.

>>>> Does the msvcrt implementation conform to C99?
>>> No. For instance the msvcrt implementation of snprintf fails compliance
>>> in a couple of important ways.
>> Thanks, some links to read up on would be nice.
>
> Many snprintf() problem reports can be found here:
>    http://search.gmane.org/?query=snprintf+mingw
>

Wow, how did I miss something that obvious? Many thanks.

> The next release of the MinGW runtime package includes a
> reimplementation of snprintf() that lacks these problems.
>
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