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From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
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Subject: Re: What is strdup() supposed to do? Does anyone have a copy?
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jeff@onion.rain.com (Jeff Beadles) writes:

>Strcpy could also return an error, but I don't think that I've ever seen
>someone check for it. :-)

Actually, it is documented behaviour (at least on some systems) that
it returns NULL when the malloc fails.  I have written code that
assumes this.

--Guido (what a silly thread this is!)