Update copyright years: This file was modified in 2005.

[gnulib.git] / lib / strncasecmp.c

diff --git a/lib/strncasecmp.c b/lib/strncasecmp.c
index 72ead01..0209c39 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/strncasecmp.c
+++ b/lib/strncasecmp.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* strncasecmp.c -- case insensitive string comparator
-   Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include "strcase.h"
 
 #include <ctype.h>
+#include <limits.h>
 
 #define TOLOWER(Ch) (isupper (Ch) ? tolower (Ch) : (Ch))
 
@@ -54,5 +55,11 @@ strncasecmp (const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n)
     }
   while (c1 == c2);
 
-  return c1 - c2;
+  if (UCHAR_MAX <= INT_MAX)
+    return c1 - c2;
+  else
+    /* On machines where 'char' and 'int' are types of the same size, the
+       difference of two 'unsigned char' values - including the sign bit -
+       doesn't fit in an 'int'.  */
+    return (c1 > c2 ? 1 : c1 < c2 ? -1 : 0);
 }