From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:50:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Make xstrndup common
Message-ID: <20070430205050.GC4385@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704301508550.29859@racer.site>

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:12:50PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Unless I am missing something, I think this should work:
> 
> static inline char *xstrndup(const char *str, int len)
> {
> 	char *result = strndup(str, len);
> 	if (result == NULL)
> 		die ("xstrndup(): out of memory");
> 	return result;
> }
> 
> Hmm?

I can't speak for the original authors, but I imagine part of the
impetus was that strndup is a GNU-ism.

-Peff