Re: Confusion with stricmp on Win32

[Reinhard Pagitsch]

Hello Steve,
Steve Hay wrote:
Reinhard Pagitsch wrote:
Sisyphus wrote:
 

Reinhard Pagitsch wrote:
   

Hello Steve,
Steve Hay wrote:
     

why is it that the following XS code outputs -25:
[code sniped]
On my system (Windows 2000) the output is -1, as expected.
     

I'm also on Windows 2000 but I'm getting the same weird behaviour as 
Steve - wrt to each of MinGW (gcc) *and* MSVC++ 6.0 *and* MSVC++ 7.0.
(I have perls 5.8 built with each of those 3 compilers.)

I have no idea why this is happening.
Cheers,
Rob
   

I use the "Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" and the "Microsoft 
Platform SDK February 2003" and
perl v5.6.1 from Activestate
 

Interesting.  I just tried using the C++ Toolkit 2003 and I now get +1 / 
-1 from the XS too.  (It is VC++ 6.0 that gives me >1 / <1.)

Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.6 both behave the same, though, and ActiveState 
builds are no different either.


Maybe there is an implementation of stricmp in Perl which overwrites the 
implementation from the other?

I couldn't see anything like that in the sources.  The only mention of 
stricmp() were a few calls to it in win32/win32.c.

- Steve
 

It seems to me it had something todo with the locale. If I use     char 
* ret = setlocale( LC_ALL, "English" );
befor than I get for stricmp("a", "z") -25.

--
mit freundlichen Grüßen,
with my best regards,
Reinhard