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From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: ULstrncmp
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Date: 30 Oct 90 17:13:53 GMT
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At least one use of strnicmp in cui.c cared about whether it returned >0
or <0, even though most uses (as expected) cared only whether it
returned 0 or not.

In my copy of the code, ULstrcmp(s1, s2) ultimately returns (s1 - s2),
while both ULstrncmp(s1, s2, len) and strnicmp(s1, s2, len) ultimately
return (s2 - s1), even though the comment in ULstrncmp says that it
returns (s1 - s2).

Thus, I believe that in my copy of things, one could use ULstrncmp and
strnicmp interchangeably, though if one is changed to return (s1 - s2)
instead, the replacement couldn't happen unless the relevant call site
were changed, too (in this case, the CheckHead routine in
andrew/ams/msclients/cui/cui.c).

Hope this helps.

		Craig