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It's only leaner in C if you know that the caller doesn't need a freshly-allocated string, and isn't going to free the pointer that you return.

• tropo 8y ago
  add a strdup() That is still far fewer layers of gunk, not even counting whatever may underlie the non-C strings.
  • db48x 8y ago
    Surely you mean strndup, since you're keeping careful track of the correct length of your strings to prevent buffer overflows.