wcsdup(3) - Linux man page

Name

wcsdup - duplicate a wide-character string

Synopsis

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <wchar.h>
wchar_t *wcsdup(const wchar_t *s);

Description

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

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

Errors

ENOMEM
Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string.

Conforming to

This function is a GNU extension.

See Also

strdup(3), wcscpy(3)