Re: [9fans] strdup()

Re: [9fans] strdup()

[dmr]

strdup is not in c99.  I have the feeling
that the committees (pre '89 now and more lately)
were reluctant to start down the path
of putting externally visible malloc calls
into the library.

	Dennis

Re: [9fans] strdup()

[rob pike, esq.]

> strdup is not in c99.  I have the feeling
> that the committees (pre '89 now and more lately)
> were reluctant to start down the path
> of putting externally visible malloc calls
> into the library.

Heavens, no.  Dynamic memory allocation?  In C???
Bite your tongue.

-rob

Re: [9fans] strdup()

[Anthony Mandic]

"rob pike, esq." wrote:

> Bite your tongue.

	Ouch!

-am	© 2002

Re: [9fans] strdup()

[rob pike, esq.]

> in the APE environment, strdup is in bsd.h (/sys/include/ape/bsd.h) as an extension.
> the manual pages describe the library for the Plan 9 native environment.
> 			options.nucl = strdup(optarg) ;
> strdup isn't declared and gets the default type of int, following C's B compatibility rules.

Yes.  For reasons I can't fathom, strdup is not in the ANSI C definition.
I hope C9X fixes this oversight.

-rob

Re: [9fans] strdup()

[AMSRL-CI-CN]

"rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote...
> Yes.  For reasons I can't fathom, strdup is not in the ANSI C definition.
> I hope C9X fixes this oversight.

We tried to include it, but there was not consensus to do so,
the primary objection being to system libraries allocating
storage that the application would be responsible for later
deallocating.  I didn't think it was a good objection, and as
a widely-used extension with an easy portable definition it
certainly is in need of standardization, just as gets was in the
1980s.  At least C99 added snprintf.

Re: [9fans] strdup()

[forsyth]

in the APE environment, strdup is in bsd.h (/sys/include/ape/bsd.h) as an extension.
the manual pages describe the library for the Plan 9 native environment.
			options.nucl = strdup(optarg) ;
strdup isn't declared and gets the default type of int, following C's B compatibility rules.

Re: [9fans] strdup()

[peter a. cejchan]

forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote in message news:<20020409122715.8EAA7199BC@mail.cse.psu.edu>...
> in the APE environment, strdup is in bsd.h (/sys/include/ape/bsd.h) as an extension.
> the manual pages describe the library for the Plan 9 native environment.
> 			options.nucl = strdup(optarg) ;
> strdup isn't declared and gets the default type of int, following C's B compatibility rules.
Thanks! This helps much. Sorry disturbing with my idiotic questions
all the time. That's for a non-programmer (==me) decided to switch to
Plan 9 as a primary (and, later, hopefully, the only) environment.
Thus, I need to port some daily used programs and libs (link to the
ports is on the Wiki --> biology progs.)
To my shame, I still have a dual plan9/linux box...

Cheers,
keep helping ;-)

++pac.

[9fans] strdup()

[pac7]

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Hi,

I have a problem:

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typedef struct {
	FILE *in ;
	FILE *out ;
	char *nucl ;
	int search_degenerate ; } opt_s ;

			options.nucl = strdup(optarg) ;

  cc -O -DPLAN9 -o  select select.c genpak.c  -lm
$  cc -o  select select.c genpak.c
/usr/pac/Test/gp-0.26/src/select.c:67[stdin:653] incompatible types: "IND CHAR" and "INT" for op "AS"
cc: cpp: 8c 1252:error
$

man strdup

...
          Strdup returns a pointer to a distinct copy of the null-
          terminated string s in space obtained from malloc(2) or `0'
          if no space can be obtained.


#############

Any hint?
TIA,
++pac
<pac7@post.cz> for the time being :-(

Re: [9fans] strdup()

[Lucio De Re]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:45:18PM +0200, pac7@post.cz wrote:
>
> typedef struct {
> 	FILE *in ;
> 	FILE *out ;
> 	char *nucl ;
> 	int search_degenerate ; } opt_s ;
>
> 			options.nucl = strdup(optarg) ;
>
opt_s or options?

++L