Dan Fandrich wrote:

>> So IMHO it's better to use _stricmp():
>
> Is this symbol available in older versions of MSVC? At least as old as we still
> support?

'_stricmp()' has been in all all VC-products since the 90-ies.
From my attic, I even found it in a 16-bit Quick-C (cl v7) version (1992!).
d:\PROG\C700\include\string.h:
  int __cdecl _stricmp(const char *, const char *);
  ...
  #ifndef __STDC__
  /* Non-ANSI names for compatibility */
  int __cdecl stricmp(const char *, const char *);

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Windows-wise, in MSVC 2010 (the oldest I still keeping here), it is yes.
Also in MSVC-2008:
  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k59z8dwe(v=vs.90).aspx

And in all oldnames.lib AFAICS.

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