Re: [PATCH] git-compat-util: Avoid strcasecmp() being inlined

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:59:53PM +0200, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >> This is necessary so that read_mailmap() can obtain a pointer to the
> >> function.
> >
> > Hm, what platform has strcasecmp() as an inline function?  Is this
> > allowed by POSIX?  Even if it isn't, should we perhaps just work
> > around it by providing our own thin static function wrapper in
> > mailmap.c?
> 
> I'm on Windows using MSYS / MinGW. Since MinGW runtime version 4.0,
> string.h contains the following code (see [1]):
> 
> #ifndef __NO_INLINE__
> __CRT_INLINE int __cdecl __MINGW_NOTHROW
> strncasecmp (const char * __sz1, const char * __sz2, size_t __sizeMaxCompare)
> {return _strnicmp (__sz1, __sz2, __sizeMaxCompare);}
> #else
> #define strncasecmp _strnicmp
> #endif

What is the error the compiler reports? Can it take the address of other
inline functions? For example, can it compile:

    inline int foo(void) { return 5; }
    extern int bar(int (*cb)(void));
    int call(void) { return bar(foo); }

Just wondering if that is the root of the problem, or if maybe there is
something else subtle going on. Also, does __CRT_INLINE just turn into
"inline", or is there perhaps some other pre-processor magic going on?

-Peff