[Gllug] C function strcasecmp

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Sun Jul 29 20:11:42 UTC 2001


On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 08:48:30PM +0100, Mark Hemment wrote:
>   There is a difference between illegal constructs and undefined behaviour
> within the C language.  With undefined behaviour the compiler still has
> rules to follow.  But under some conditions, one/some of those rules are
> "open", and can change from compiler-to-compiler (and even from
> optimization level to optimization level).

.. which was exactly what I was saying. The point is, in this case, although
there is still ambiguity, it makes no difference how the compiler interprets
it - it will always get it right.

It's simple gcse BODMAS, nothing more complicated.

Cheers,

Alex.

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