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From: Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: avoiding strdup()
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 15:25:03 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 13:19:07 -0000 (UTC)
vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
> Meanwhile, saw someone in another group write:
> 
> char * something;
> something = strdup("writable string etc.");
> if( something == NULL ) { etc. }
> 
> But that won't work if --std=c99, does work for g99 and c2x.
> The (Linux) man page says:
> /* Since glibc 2.12: */ _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
> 
> I asked Google about it being a POSIX extension
> added at that late date, and it gave me an answer
> about the C standard:
> 
> "C9X London meeting update"
> https://groups.google.com/g/comp.std.c/c/pMaEU_8Rb7w
>  _ _ _ _ _
> 2. strsep and strdup are not being added. strsep() is out because
> not enough people wanted it to vote it in; strdup() lost on the
> grounds that it would be the *ONLY* function other than *alloc()
> in the entire library whose return could be sanely passed to free(),
> and this is surprising.

The design of  strsep()  is poor. The reasoning for not adding  strdup()
doesn't make any sense to me.