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+/* Case-insensitive string comparison function.
+ Copyright (C) 1998-1999, 2005-2007, 2009-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
+ any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+/* Specification. */
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include <ctype.h>
+#include <limits.h>
+
+#define TOLOWER(Ch) (isupper (Ch) ? tolower (Ch) : (Ch))
+
+/* Compare strings S1 and S2, ignoring case, returning less than, equal to or
+ greater than zero if S1 is lexicographically less than, equal to or greater
+ than S2.
+ Note: This function does not work with multibyte strings! */
+
+int
+strcasecmp (const char *s1, const char *s2)
+{
+ const unsigned char *p1 = (const unsigned char *) s1;
+ const unsigned char *p2 = (const unsigned char *) s2;
+ unsigned char c1, c2;
+
+ if (p1 == p2)
+ return 0;
+
+ do
+ {
+ c1 = TOLOWER (*p1);
+ c2 = TOLOWER (*p2);
+
+ if (c1 == '\0')
+ break;
+
+ ++p1;
+ ++p2;
+ }
+ while (c1 == c2);
+
+ if (UCHAR_MAX <= INT_MAX)
+ return c1 - c2;
+ else
+ /* On machines where 'char' and 'int' are types of the same size, the
+ difference of two 'unsigned char' values - including the sign bit -
+ doesn't fit in an 'int'. */
+ return (c1 > c2 ? 1 : c1 < c2 ? -1 : 0);
+}