Hi Auke,

You wrote to Darin McBride,

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

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

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

Seconded!

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

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

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

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

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

:-)

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

newt has heron :-)
(Well the ones in my brothers garden pond do...).

George

 * SLMR 2.1a * Computers eliminate spare time.

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