[Gllug] Re: [OxLUG] C function strcasecmp

[Nix]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, SteveC uttered the following:
>> BTW, adding and subtracting 32 -- bleugh. That's what bitwise logical
>> operators are for :-)
> 
> Agreed... but even so, wouldn't the compiler figure that out and rewrite
> it? I looked around the gcc website and couldn't find docs that said what
> it does :-/

This is target-specific. GCC will rewrite adding and subtracting 32 into
bitwise logicals, but it won't, on some architectures (e.g. i586)
rewrite multiplications by 2 into shifts, because the shifts can
actually be slower.

(Disclaimer: Fuzzy memory mode is on.)

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