The perils of strcmp_iw

[Andrew Cagney]

> On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 22:59:19 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> 
> 
>> strcmp_iw has the property of "foo == foo(arg)";
> 
> 
> You doubtless know this already, but actually strcmp_iw doesn't have
> that property: it has the property "foo(arg) == foo".  Or, rather,
> "foo(ANYTHING == foo", where ANYTHING doesn't have to end in a right
> parenthesis.  So strcmp_iw not only doesn't do clever parenthesis
> checking, but it isn't even symmetric.
> 
> (And, of course, it's also unlike strcmp in another way, namely that
> you can't use it to do sorting.)
> 
> Sigh.  Still, it works pretty well, once you know its quirks.

Sounds like it could do with a better name.

Andrew