Re: (patch) strdupa for GLib - 2nd try

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Apologies if you guys are seeing this twice.
> 
> The following patch adds strdupa support to GLib - duplicate a string on
> the stack.  As Ulrich Drepper noted yesterday, alloca is many, many times
> faster than g_malloc/g_free.
> 
> I will commit unless there are objections.

Hmm, do you necessarily need to include alloca.h - the right way on many
systems to get alloca() prototype is by including stdlib.h (as per 'man
alloca' on Linux & Solaris). IRIX 6.4 seems to need alloca.h, so there
doesn't seem to be any rule of thumb...?

-- Elliot
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