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From: bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Strcpy fun w/ Ultrix
Message-ID: <cYLAeIy00Vsn02rps8@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 1 May 89 21:22:28 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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> Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.lang.c: 27-Apr-89 Strcpy fun w/ Ultrix
> tim@scsmo1.UUCP (618)


> I ran accross a problem with strcpy in ultrix, for some reason it will
> not return its first argument.  This is something like the "buged" code:
> x->name=strcpy(malloc(strlen(in)+1),in);
> The solution was:
> strcpy(x->name=malloc(strlen(in)+1),in);

Danger, Will Robinson!  Bad programming style alert!

Do you WANT to dump core if malloc returns NULL?

-Bob Glickstein