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

See:

	./utils/strdup.c

We use our own if configure does not find it.


> * Michael C. Thornburgh  [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.
> 
> -- 
> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
> 


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