Re: avoiding strdup()

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

I was looking at the systemd source code the other day, and came across a
lot of this sort of thing:
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    _cleanup_free_ char *link = NULL;
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Now, what do you suppose “_cleanup_free_” does?

It's a dark magic of GCC to automatically free the memory when pointer
goes out of scope.