strverscmp is buggy in newlib 4.4.0 (was: Cygwin 3.4.6)

[Brian Inglis]

On 2024-01-02 13:29, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
>> The cause is apparently that Cygwin's strverscmp implementation wasborrowed from musl libc
> would it make sense to use git submodules when "borrowing" code so the
> upstream reference is not lost, and keeping it abreast is relatively trivial
> exercise?
Issue is in newlib (x-post and followups set):
https://sourceware.org/cgit/newlib-cygwin/tree/newlib/libc/string/strverscmp.c

Docs for man pages are embedded in newlib (but not Cygwin unfortunately) 
sources, but it would be nice if folks added a subsection or reference with 
{Free,Open,Net}BSD/musl/etc. links, so we could see where and when the code was 
copied, although some sources include BSD revision headers and copyrights, other 
sources have no identifying header.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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