* Michael C. Thornburgh <zenomt@armory.com> [010123 17:33] wrote:
>
> that certainly works and is much cleaner, but strdup
> may not be as ubiquitous as malloc & strncpy.
> someone more versed in portability issues than i am
> should speak to that.
hmm:
HISTORY
The strdup() function first appeared in 4.4BSD.
however:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/99/March/0038.html
"strdup is no in the ANSI standard"
however:
~/pgcvs % find . -name "*.c" | xargs grep strdup | grep -v pstrdup | wc -l
563
(pstrdup() seems to be some internal postgresql function.)
So I think anyone who wants to port should provide thier own
function.
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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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