Hi Darin,

On 25 Aug 98, 10:02, you wrote to Auke Reitsma

 AR>> - I suspect it behaves badly in the presence of strdup().

 DM> 1. strdup() is non-standard.

Yeah. But so what. It is so useful that if it didn't exist you'd have to
invent it ... if it weren't in Snippets.

 DM> 2. This is one reason I hate functions that return dynamically
 DM> allocated memory without providing an opposite method to clean it
 DM> up.

Nah. The opposite method for strdup() is free().

 DM>   Even a simple unstrdup() would be helpful to remind everyone
 DM> to clean up...  malloc/calloc have free, fopen has fclose, ...

1:  #define unstrdup(x) free(x)

2:  ... windows has deltree c:\windows. ;-)

3:  ... new has delete, but newt does not have deletet ...

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