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Article #503Re: Proposed addition to string library: strnew
From: David Fox
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 1990 18:15
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 1990 18:15
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I am aware of strdup(), but it uses malloc rather than new and it bombs if you pass it a zero pointer, rather than passing back a zero pointer as strnew does. I wasn't really that serious about strnew, but I've received many replies saying that strdup is the same as strnew, but its not.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ulysses!fox From: fox@research.att.com (David Fox) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposed addition to string library: strnew Message-ID: <FOX.90Sep12141551@devo.research.att.com> Date: 12 Sep 90 18:15:51 GMT References: <FOX.90Sep7130228@devo.research.att.com> <77210002@hpclscu.HP.COM> Sender: netnews@ulysses.att.com Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 5 In-reply-to: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM's message of 10 Sep 90 23:39:13 GMT