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Message-ID: <20130222052016.GR20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:20:17 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: strcasestr.c
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 08:03:28PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> My leaning right now would be to write the naive strstr loop using
> strcasecmp instead of strcmp (or an inline loop) for the inner loop.
> This will cause strcasestr to have the exact same case-folding
> semantics as strcasecmp, whatever those are in the future. This is
> best for consistency. Unfortunately, it's very bad from a performance
> standpoint, but I don't know of any code using this function for
> high-performance use.
I just committed an utterly trivial, working strcasestr based on this
principle. At least it's better than what we had before. I hope nobody
objects too much. It's 79 bytes of code (97 bytes for PIC) on x86 and
that's with -O3.
Rich
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