NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       wcsdup - duplicate a wide-character string

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

       #include <wchar.h>

       wchar_t *wcsdup (const wchar_t *s);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       The  wcsdup  function  is  the  wide-character equivalent of the strdup
       function. It allocates and returns a new  wide-character  string  whose
       initial contents is a duplicate of the wide-character string pointed to
       by s.

       Memory for the new wide-character string is  obtained  with  malloc(3),
       and can be freed with free(3).

RETURN VALUE    [Toc]    [Back]

       The wcsdup function returns a pointer to the new wide-character string,
       or NULL if sufficient memory was not available.

CONFORMING TO    [Toc]    [Back]

       This function is a GNU extension.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

       strdup(3), wcscpy(3)



GNU				  1999-07-25			     WCSDUP(3)