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		sramsay on April 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C strdup seems like a perfect example of "standardizing existing practice." And it has never struck me as running against the spirit of C.

DougGwyn on April 14, 2020 [–]

In fact I proposed strdup on a few occasions, but it wasn't adopted. It seems that they didn't like for standard library functions to use malloc. POSIX.1 specifies strdup.

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