12.71.8 strcasestr

Gnulib module: strcasestr or strcasestr-simple

Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module strcasestr-simple or strcasestr:

• This function is missing on some platforms: AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
• This function can trigger memchr bugs on some platforms: glibc 2.10.
• This function can trigger false positives for long periodic needles on some platforms: glibc 2.12, Cygwin 1.7.7.

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module strcasestr:

• This function has quadratic instead of linear worst-case complexity on some platforms: glibc 2.8, FreeBSD 6.2, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 4.0, Solaris 11 2011-11.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: