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WCSDUP

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO

NAME

wcsdup ? duplicate a wide-character string

SYNOPSIS

#include <wchar.h>

wchar_t *wcsdup (const wchar_t *s);

DESCRIPTION

The wcsdup function is the wide-character equivalent of the strdup function. It allocates and returns a new wide-character string whose initial contents is a duplicate of the wide-character string pointed to by s.

Memory for the new wide-character string is obtained with malloc(3), and can be freed with free(3).

RETURN VALUE

The wcsdup function returns a pointer to the new wide-character string, or NULL if sufficient memory was not available.

CONFORMING TO

This function is a GNU extension.

SEE ALSO

strdup(3), wcscpy(3)


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