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From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: malloc() problem on sysv386
Message-ID: <1991May25.201230.26190@redsox.bsw.com>
Date: 25 May 91 20:12:30 GMT
References: <1991May23.094026.18969@hollie.rdg.dec.com> <1991May24.024307.29104@swsrv1.cirr.com> <4161@uc.msc.umn.edu>
Reply-To: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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In article <4161@uc.msc.umn.edu> jeff@uf.UUCP (Jeff Turner) writes:
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-Wrong:
-	cp = "string";
-	new_cp = malloc(strlen(cp));
-	strcpy(new_cp, cp);
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-Right:
-	cp = "string";
-	new_cp = malloc(strlen(cp)+1);
-	strcpy(new_cp, cp);

Better:
	cp = "string";
	new_cp = strdup(cp);

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