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+/* Case-insensitive buffer comparator.
+ Copyright (C) 1996-1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009-2022 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
+ the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+/* Written by Jim Meyering. */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include "memcasecmp.h"
+
+#include <ctype.h>
+#include <limits.h>
+
+/* Like memcmp, but ignore differences in case.
+ Convert to upper case (not lower) before comparing so that
+ join -i works with sort -f. */
+
+int
+memcasecmp (const void *vs1, const void *vs2, size_t n)
+{
+ size_t i;
+ char const *s1 = vs1;
+ char const *s2 = vs2;
+ for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+ {
+ unsigned char u1 = s1[i];
+ unsigned char u2 = s2[i];
+ int U1 = toupper (u1);
+ int U2 = toupper (u2);
+ int diff = (UCHAR_MAX <= INT_MAX ? U1 - U2 : _GL_CMP (U1, U2));
+ if (diff)
+ return diff;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}