On 2019-02-24, 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);
>
> or
>
> c=stdup(str);
>
> ....
>
> free (c);


or alloc_sprintf(....  but someone cross-posted this to windows newsgroups.



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