strdup3(3) with internal result checking

Other Alias

firestring_strdup

SYNOPSIS

#include <firestring.h>
-lfirestring

char *firestring_strdup(const char * const input)

DESCRIPTION

firestring_strdup() acts exactly like strdup(3) except that it detects malloc failures, prints an error and exit(3) with exit status EXIT_FAILURE. In most programs, malloc failures are unrecoverable, and this is the preferred behaviour.

RETURN VALUE

If firestring_strdup() returns, it always returns a copy of the string input. It never returns NULL.

AUTHOR

Ian Gulliver <[email protected]>