[RFC v4 2/4] string: Add streq,memeq,wcseq,wmemeq,strcaseeq[_l],wcscaseeq[_l] APIs

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Paul,

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 09:41:29AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2025-09-15 00:18, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > I gave up on static inline because of that.  TBH, I'd like to avoid
> > doing tricks where users have a hard time understanding what glibc is
> > doing.  I have enough trouble reading glibc sources myself already.
> 
> OK, if we want to keep things absolutely simple in the headers, then we
> should not use inline.
> 
> It's too bad that glibc never uses C99-or-later inline in its headers, due
> to portability hassles and inertia, particularly since Gnulib has been doing
> it for many years. But I suppose this can be put off still further into the
> future.

I wonder if gcc would agree to remove GNU inline.  That would open the
door for using C99 inline eventually in glibc.

Of course, there's a problem in glibc, as it currently uses GNU inline
extensively.  I'm not entirely sure how a transition period would look
like; but we should have a look at that.

I would volunteer to work on trying to improve this in glibc if there's
interest.  I certainly want to be able to use the standard inline here
some day.

Also, I could volunteer to remove a lot of obsolete code that's there to
support ancient versions of GCC, as Zack showed recently (IIRC it was
Zack).


Have a lovely night!
Alex

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