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Re: Suggestion for improvement to strupr and strlwr functions.

From: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
Cc: newlib at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:26:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Suggestion for improvement to strupr and strlwr functions.
References: <1126.10.15.2.184.1136391929.squirrel@sws2.ncl.ac.uk> <43BDA6A4.7050608@redhat.com> <200601052318.k05NI55K031732@greed.delorie.com>

DJ Delorie wrote:

The function itself is non-standard (not ANSI, POSIX, C99, or Single Unix) and isn't likely to be that commonly used.
Unless you're on DOS or Windows, which has case-ignoring file systems.
Then it's used a *lot*.

I stand corrected :)

References:
- Suggestion for improvement to strupr and strlwr functions.
  - From: J.D McLaughlin
- Re: Suggestion for improvement to strupr and strlwr functions.
  - From: Jeff Johnston
- Re: Suggestion for improvement to strupr and strlwr functions.
  - From: DJ Delorie

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