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

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:03:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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But only when someone compiles on MinGW, no?

Yeah. I think a more clear way to phrase the question would be: is there
some trick we can use to booby-trap strcasecmp as a function pointer so
that it fails to compile even on systems where it would otherwise work?

That line of thought nudges us toward the place Linus explicitly
said he didn't want to see us going, no?  We do not particularly
want to care the exact nature of the breakage on MinGW.  Do we
really want to set a booby-trap that intimately knows about how
their strcasecmp is broken, and possibly cover breakages of the same
kind but with other functions?

Exactly. You snipped my second paragraph, but the gist of it was "...and
no, we do not want to go there". Calling it a booby-trap was meant to be
derogatory. :)

-Peff