Re: ECPG interface: 7.4beta3 compile failure; CVS tip

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 19:25, Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> > Line 138 begins the definition of strndup(). However, strndup() is also
> > declared in string.h, which is included by this file. If I rename this
> > function to estrndup() (and also where it is called, further down) the
> > compilation succeeds.
>
> Hm, is strndup defined as a macro in your string.h? I suspect it's not
> a good idea to be providing a local definition of something that might
> be considered a standard function.

/* Return a malloc'd copy of at most N bytes of STRING. The
resultant string is terminated even if no null terminator
appears before STRING[N]. */
#if defined __USE_GNU
extern char *strndup (__const char *__string, size_t __n)
__THROW __attribute_malloc__;
#endif

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