Re: Re: patch for src/backend/main/main.c

* Michael C. Thornburgh <zenomt@armory.com> [010123 17:33] wrote:
>
> that certainly works and is much cleaner, but strdup
> may not be as ubiquitous as malloc & strncpy.
> someone more versed in portability issues than i am
> should speak to that.

hmm:

HISTORY
     The strdup() function first appeared in 4.4BSD.

however:

http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/99/March/0038.html

  "strdup is no in the ANSI standard"

however:

~/pgcvs % find . -name "*.c" | xargs grep strdup | grep -v pstrdup | wc -l
     563

  (pstrdup() seems to be some internal postgresql function.)

So I think anyone who wants to port should provide thier own
function.

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