From: "AMSRL-CI-CN" <gwyn@arl.army.mil>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] strdup()
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:19:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <GuCvxp.4un@arl.army.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c092ee8e3350cef1e8988d34380698ad@plan9.bell-labs.com>
"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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-10 15:19 UTC|newest]
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2002-04-09 13:56 rob pike, esq.
2002-04-10 15:19 ` AMSRL-CI-CN [this message]
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2002-04-10 1:41 rob pike, esq.
2002-04-10 8:55 ` Anthony Mandic
2002-04-10 1:30 dmr
2002-04-09 12:23 forsyth
2002-04-11 8:44 ` peter a. cejchan
2002-04-09 10:45 pac7
2002-04-09 11:22 ` Lucio De Re
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