[PATCH v2 1/5] strdup.3: drop mention of "the GNU GCC suite"

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2021-09-14T12:40:58Z

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str[n]dupa() are available on every modern compiler platform,
incl. Clang, ICC, &c.

By shortening the third paragraph, it now reads
strdupa() and strndupa() are similar,
but use alloca(3) to allocate the buffer.
pointing squarely to alloca(3), which is scary enough,
so drop the extraneous warning, too ‒ athis clearly points to
"see alloca(3) for the limitations of that allocator".

Plus, it's not like malloc(3) doesn't have its problems, too,
but I don't see those being touted in the first paragraph;
reducing these to the bare minimum,
strdup() copies into malloc(3) and you can free it with free(3),
strndup() likewise, but up to n, and
str[n]dupa() use alloca(3) instead ‒ be wary of what alloca(3) does!
doesn't really make sense ‒ it's obvious that, ex definitione,
alloca(3) suffers from alloca(3) problems and input limits,
just like malloc(3) from the malloc(3) suite's.

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
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man3/strdup.3 | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man3/strdup.3 b/man3/strdup.3
index 1e1ac34de..963de7d48 100644
--- a/man3/strdup.3
+++ b/man3/strdup.3
@@ -99,9 +99,6 @@ and
are similar, but use
.BR alloca (3)
to allocate the buffer.
-They are available only when using the GNU
-GCC suite, and suffer from the same limitations described in
-.BR alloca (3).
.SH RETURN VALUE
On success, the
.BR strdup ()
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