From 5a34b5393dfd06a540c2b5c48803e4def352e85f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: oes <oes@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:58:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Made strcmpic and strncmpic safe against NULL arguments
 (which are now treated as empty strings).

---
 miscutil.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/miscutil.c b/miscutil.c
index 065cd5f6..b3628931 100644
--- a/miscutil.c
+++ b/miscutil.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-const char miscutil_rcs[] = "$Id: miscutil.c,v 1.36 2002/04/26 12:55:38 oes Exp $";
+const char miscutil_rcs[] = "$Id: miscutil.c,v 1.37 2002/04/26 18:29:43 jongfoster Exp $";
 /*********************************************************************
  *
- * File        :  $Source: /cvsroot/ijbswa/current/miscutil.c,v $
+ * File        :  $Source: /cvsroot/ijbswa//current/Attic/miscutil.c,v $
  *
  * Purpose     :  zalloc, hash_string, safe_strerror, strcmpic,
  *                strncmpic, chomp, and MinGW32 strdup
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ const char miscutil_rcs[] = "$Id: miscutil.c,v 1.36 2002/04/26 12:55:38 oes Exp
  *
  * Revisions   :
  *    $Log: miscutil.c,v $
+ *    Revision 1.37  2002/04/26 18:29:43  jongfoster
+ *    Fixing this Visual C++ warning:
+ *    miscutil.c(710) : warning C4090: '=' : different 'const' qualifiers
+ *
  *    Revision 1.36  2002/04/26 12:55:38  oes
  *    New function string_toupper
  *
@@ -395,6 +399,9 @@ char *safe_strerror(int err)
  *********************************************************************/
 int strcmpic(const char *s1, const char *s2)
 {
+   if (!s1) s1 = "";
+   if (!s2) s2 = "";
+
    while (*s1 && *s2)
    {
       if ( ( *s1 != *s2 ) && ( ijb_tolower(*s1) != ijb_tolower(*s2) ) )
@@ -425,7 +432,9 @@ int strcmpic(const char *s1, const char *s2)
 int strncmpic(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n)
 {
    if (n <= 0) return(0);
-
+   if (!s1) s1 = "";
+   if (!s2) s2 = "";
+   
    while (*s1 && *s2)
    {
       if ( ( *s1 != *s2 ) && ( ijb_tolower(*s1) != ijb_tolower(*s2) ) )
-- 
2.50.1