Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!taumet!steve
From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: _tolower and _toupper macros
Message-ID: <352@taumet.com>
Date: 27 Jul 90 16:46:58 GMT
References: <2891@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1990Jul26.100721.14628@warwick.ac.uk>
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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ANSI defines toupper (tolower) such that it returns a lowercase (uppercase)
version of an uppercase (lowercase) argument, and returns all other
characters as-is.  There is no definition of _toupper or _tolower in ANSI C.

The implementation of topper (tolower) must check its parameter to see
what it is before converting.  Sometimes the programmer knows that
such a check is not necessary.  Many C implementations provide the
_toupper and _tolower macros, which are faster, to use in such cases.
Although such macros are not guaranteed to exist on all systems, they
are usually easy enough to write if they are not supplied.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com