René Scharfe <l....@web.de> writes:
> This version of strdup() is only compiled if nedmalloc is used instead
> of the system allocator. That means we can't rely on strdup() being
> able to take NULL -- some (most?) platforms won't like it. Removing
> the NULL check would be a more general and overall easier way out, no?
The callers of this version must be prepared to call a version of
strdup() that does not accept NULL, so in a sense, passing NULL to
this function is already an error in the context of this project.
That sounds like a good rationale to take this more straight-forward
approach.
> But it should check the result of malloc() before copying.
> ---
> compat/nedmalloc/nedmalloc.c | 8 +++-----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/compat/nedmalloc/nedmalloc.c b/compat/nedmalloc/nedmalloc.c
> index a0a16eb..cc18f0c 100644
> --- a/compat/nedmalloc/nedmalloc.c
> +++ b/compat/nedmalloc/nedmalloc.c
> @@ -955,12 +955,10 @@ void **nedpindependent_comalloc(nedpool *p,
> size_t elems, size_t *sizes, void **
> */
> char *strdup(const char *s1)
> {
> - char *s2 = 0;
> - if (s1) {
> - size_t len = strlen(s1) + 1;
> - s2 = malloc(len);
> + size_t len = strlen(s1) + 1;
> + char *s2 = malloc(len);
> + if (s2)
> memcpy(s2, s1, len);
> - }
> return s2;
> }
> #endif
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