WCSDUP(3)

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:
        _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
On success, wcsdup() returns a pointer to the new wide-character string. On error, it returns -1, with errno set to indicate the cause of the error.

ERRORS

ENOMEM
    Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string.

ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value
 | Thread safety | MT-Safe

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)

COLOPHON
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