wcsdup - duplicate a wide-character string


SYNOPSIS

       #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.


CONFORMING TO

       This function is a GNU extension.


SEE ALSO

       strdup(3), wcscpy(3)


Man(1) output converted with man2html