wcsdup(3) - Linux man page

Name

wcsdup - duplicate a wide-character string

Synopsis

#include <wchar.h>

wchar_t *wcsdup(const wchar_t *s);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
wcsdup():
Since glibc 2.10:
_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700 || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
Before glibc 2.10:
_GNU_SOURCE

Description

The wcsdup() function is the wide-character equivalent of the strdup(3) 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 should 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

POSIX.1-2008. This function is not specified in POSIX.1-2001, and is not widely available on other systems.

See Also

strdup(3), wcscpy(3)

Referenced By

strndup(3)