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Re: tolower trick in net.c



Hello,

Jeffrey Walton, le lun. 12 août 2019 22:59:56 -0400, a ecrit:
> The tolower trick of setting the 5th bit is not portable. C does not
> guarantee the trick.
> 
>     for (number = 0, c = *cp | 0x20; ... )

Indeed, but GNU Mach does talk ASCII, it's not planned to use some other
encoding any day.

> It may be a good idea to just call tolower on *cp.

We do not have 'tolower' inside the kernel.
(and if we had, it would use the 5th bit trick :) )

Samuel


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