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Message-ID: <20130214152349.GA20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:23:49 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: strcasestr.c
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 09:59:56AM -0500, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> When investigating using the musl strstr.c ofr OpenBSD I noticed
> that musl only has a stub for strcasestr() that calls strstr(). I
> was curious whether the twoway algorithm could be adapted to do a
> case-insensitive search. It turned out to be pretty trivial to
> just add calls to tolower() in the right places, making sure to
> avoid sign extension.
>
> The changes are mostly mechanical. You might wish to inline
> _strcasechr() though the compiler will probably do that for you.
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell making this correct is nontrivial;
your version only works for ascii, not the rest of ucs. I don't see
any easy way to adapt 2way to the case where matching classes contain
characters of different lengths...
Rich
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