Re: locale support

Lamar Owen writes:

> And building without locale support doesn't work, either, because, at
> least on RH 6.1, strncmp() is buggered to use the locale's collation.

I don't think so. On RH 6.1, strncmp() is the same it's ever been:

int
strncmp (s1, s2, n)
const char *s1;
const char *s2;
size_t n;
{
unsigned reg_char c1 = '\0';
unsigned reg_char c2 = '\0';

if (n >= 4)
{
size_t n4 = n >> 2;
do
{
c1 = (unsigned char) *s1++;
c2 = (unsigned char) *s2++;
if (c1 == '\0' || c1 != c2)
return c1 - c2;
c1 = (unsigned char) *s1++;
c2 = (unsigned char) *s2++;
if (c1 == '\0' || c1 != c2)
return c1 - c2;
c1 = (unsigned char) *s1++;
c2 = (unsigned char) *s2++;
if (c1 == '\0' || c1 != c2)
return c1 - c2;
c1 = (unsigned char) *s1++;
c2 = (unsigned char) *s2++;
if (c1 == '\0' || c1 != c2)
return c1 - c2;
} while (--n4 > 0);
n &= 3;
}

while (n > 0)
{
c1 = (unsigned char) *s1++;
c2 = (unsigned char) *s2++;
if (c1 == '\0' || c1 != c2)
return c1 - c2;
n--;
}

return c1 - c2;
}

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