Re: [Bug-gnulib] xstrdup.c

[Derek R. Price]

Bruno Haible wrote:

> Derek Robert Price wrote:
>  
>
> > Would anyone have any objections to xstrdup(NULL) returning NULL?
> >    
>
> Yes. For the developer it's easier to remember if the 'x' stands for just
> one thing: checking the memory allocation failures. xmalloc, xstrdup,
> xgethostname, xgetcwd, xsetenv, etc. have this in common.
>
> strdup(NULL) is an error, therefore xstrdup(NULL) should continue to be
> banned as well.
>  

Fair enough.  Thanks.

Derek