Hi:
this just to say that stncasecmp has the same behavior of either
negative or postive length argument.
why you insist to this point? as strncmp("aaaa", "bbb", 1000000)
works with no warning, why negative length need trigger warnings?
thanks
2011/8/14 Derick Rethans <der...@php.net>:
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Laruence wrote:
>> >
>> >> Dear all:
>> >> I am going to close strn(case)cmp supporting negative length vote,
>> >> since it has been calling for vote near two weeks, and no new feedback
>> >> .
>> >>
>> >> the Voting result is:
>> >> Support : 6 felipe pajoye pierrick gwynne tyrael laruence
>> >> Decline : 3 iliaa rasmus salathe
>> >>
>> >> it wins 2/3 vote, so I think this supposed to mean that accept,
>> >> right?
>> >
>> > I voted against too. Also, you started the vote with not even a week
>> > between RFC announcement and call for voting, so I guess that makes this
>> > invalid?
>> >
>> >
>> > Just looked over the RFC, and this whole example is weird:
>> >
>> > <?php
>> > var_dump(strncmp("prefix_num", "num", -10));
>> > ?>
>> >
>> > Why does it even find the substring as you can't do "-10" from the end?
>> > If the number is too high, it should give you a warning.
>>
>> imo the patch is consistent with how substr works:
>> tyrael@thor:~$ php -d display_errors=1 -d error_reporting=-1 -r 'echo
>> substr("prefix_num", -100);'
>> prefix_num
>
> Maybe, but I would classify *that* as a bug as it makes no sense at all.
>
> Derick
>
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