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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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