What naming conventions do you use with functions that allocate memory?

Question

So, here are two functions that do almost the same thing.

What would you name each of them if you included both in your project?

void strToLower1(char* str)
{
    int len = strlen(str);

    int i;
    for (i=0; i<len; i++)
        str[i] = tolower(str[i]);
}

char* strToLower2(const char* inputStr)
{
    char* str = strdup(inputStr);
    strToLower1(str);
    return str;   // must be freed
}

EDIT: I modified the above example for correct code (sheesh)

Answer 1

I really like Talismanic coding standards , especially naming conventions . An agreement may be applied here with the use of special names for copying, creating and accepting routines :

http://pcroot.cern.ch/TaligentDocs/TaligentOnline/DocumentRoot/1.0/Docs/books/WM/WM_67.html#0

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createLowerCaseStr() copyAsLowercaseStr(). create copy , .

transformIntoLowercase() mutateIntoLowercase(), . Taligent, transform mutate , .

Answer 2

strToLowerInPlace 'str', new_s = strToLowerInPlace(strdup(s)). , "InPlace" , , .

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Answer 3

1st: char *copylo(char *dst, const char *src); ( !)
2: char *lowerize(char *data);

Answer 4

• tolower()
• If you already have a function that creates the bottom scale in place, why are you redefining the code in the version out of place?
• Naming is OK