On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote: > Why not just use [x]strdup()? (For the audience, I think Andrew Cagney actually knew this:) No x* calls are allowed in bfd (just bfd; and yes existing calls are bugs). xstrdup et al aborts on memory failures, and bfd isn't allowed to do that; it should return an error to its caller. brgds, H-P