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)