On 24/02/2019 20:47, Jasen Betts wrote:
> 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.
>

never heard of that one.....thats not in stdlib...


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