malloc() problem on sysv386

[Larry Campbell]

In article <4161 at uc.msc.umn.edu> jeff at uf.UUCP (Jeff Turner) writes:
-
-Wrong:
-	cp = "string";
-	new_cp = malloc(strlen(cp));
-	strcpy(new_cp, cp);
-
-Right:
-	cp = "string";
-	new_cp = malloc(strlen(cp)+1);
-	strcpy(new_cp, cp);

Better:
	cp = "string";
	new_cp = strdup(cp);

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