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On 23 Oct 2014 23:07, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > This patch removes the apparently superfluous local_strdup. > I can find no reason for it to be here and the reason for > it being there is not documented. > > It has been present since 1996-08-15 in a patch that simply > refactored strlen/malloc/memcpy code into local_strdup without > changing anything. Probably a conservative change. Why strdup > was not called is not clear. > > I have verified that building dl-load.c uses the __strdup > alias so the loader is self-consistent. lgtm -mike
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