strdup() function

Question

I recently became aware that the strdup() function I\'ve enjoyed using so much on OS X is not part of ANSI C, but part of POSIX. I don\'t want to rewrite all my

Answer 1

you could just use a macro like this, this way you can use the old name, but linker will see a different name;

char *my_strdup(const char *s) {
    char *p = malloc(strlen(s) + 1);
    if(p) { strcpy(p, s); }
    return p;
}

/* this goes in whatever header defines my_strdup */
char *my_strdup(const char *s);
#define strdup(x) my_strdup(x)