strdup or _strdup?

Question

When I use strdup in Microsoft Visual C++, it warns me:

warning C4996: \'strdup\': The POSIX name for this item is deprecated. Instead, u

Answer 1

Don't know about C++.

The C Standard does not describe any function with the strdup name (though the name is reserved). To be portable, in C, you're better off replacing that with malloc, strcpy, and free.