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From: fox@research.att.com (David Fox)
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Subject: Re: Proposed addition to string library: strnew
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Date: 12 Sep 90 18:15:51 GMT
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In-reply-to: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM's message of 10 Sep 90 23:39:13 GMT

I am aware of strdup(), but it uses malloc rather than new and
it bombs if you pass it a zero pointer, rather than passing
back a zero pointer as strnew does.  I wasn't really that
serious about strnew, but I've received many replies saying
that strdup is the same as strnew, but its not.