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From: Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: avoiding strdup()
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Michael S wrote:

> What strdup() can do better, for any chosen value of better, than
> strlen()+malloc()+memcpy() ?

It's shorter.



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