[Gdal-dev] patch for mingw bug in strdup

[Mateusz Loskot]

Rob McMullen wrote:
> Using MinGW, there's a really strange bug that I can't yet isolate
> completely, but occurs within msvcrt's strdup implementation.
> Enclosed is a patch to duplicate the functionality of strdup but using
> VSIMalloc, avoiding the problematic strdup.
> 
> If you didn't want to use this to replace strdup entirely, you could
> wrap the new code with ifdefs:
> 
> #if defined(WIN32) && defined(__GCC__)
> 
> which should isolate this to MinGW only.

Rob,

I think it's a good idea to submit patches on the Trac directly.
I've taken the liberty to submit your patch there:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1547

Cheers
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Mateusz Loskot
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