On 24/02/2019 14:38, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 24/02/2019 13:09, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> If you take the trouble to ensure that you have enough space for your
>> data, there's nothing wrong with using str.
>
> c=malloc(strlen(str)+1);
> if(c)
>      strcpy (c,str);

Indeed, although I'd cache the length rather than make the compiler find
it twice:

size_t len = strlen(str) + 1;
c = malloc(len);
if(c)
   memcpy(c, str, len);

but it's a minor point.


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