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From: vickde@vicstoy.UUCP (Vick De Giorgio)
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Subject: Re: What is strdup() supposed to do? Does anyone have a copy?
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Date: 21 Feb 91 23:37:12 GMT
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In article <1991Feb19.004526.16033@onion.rain.com> jeff@onion.rain.com (Jeff Beadles) writes:
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>Untrue.  What if sizeof(char) != 1?  Yours will break, and mine will work.
> 
>{note:  I don't personally know of places where this isn't true, but then
>        again, some people think that sizeof (int) == sizeof (char *) :-}

sizeof(char) is by definition 1 -- K&R pg 188. Correct me if I'm wrong
(I'm sure someone will ;') but I don't think this has changed under ANSI.

=V=
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