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Re: strcpy -> memcpy

From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
Cc: <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>, <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>, <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:00:18 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: strcpy -> memcpy

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, DJ Delorie wrote:

  I wrote:
> > No x* calls are allowed in bfd (just bfd; and yes existing calls
> > are bugs).
>
> Libiberty guarantees the availability of strdup(), which returns NULL
> on allocation failure.  BFD should be allowed to use that.
>
> Now, if you want to optimize libiberty's strdup, that's a different
> story... ;)

I made no statement about strdup.  I was talking about xstrdup
xmalloc xcalloc xrealloc and whatever other similar x* there
might be.  Maybe I wasn't clear enough.

brgds, H-P

References:
- Re: strcpy -> memcpy
  - From: DJ Delorie

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