Michael Meissner meissner@cygnus.com
Wed Oct 11 18:13:00 GMT 2000

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On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:37:27PM -0700, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> Is it kosher to use strcasecmp() to compare command line arguments
> with a table of strings?
> 
> I ask because i'm gutting the MIPS cpu/ISA command line selection crud
> -- and wow is it crud -- in gas, and being able to use strcasecmp()
> would cut down my table by more than half.
> 
> (It's in libiberty and OK for at least internal use -- just wanted to
> be sure it was OK for case-insensitive command line handling.)

Yes, you can use it in bfd/binutils/gas/ld.  Gas/{expr,read}.c already use it.

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