memdup: use 'void *' as return and source type
diff --git a/lib/strdup.c b/lib/strdup.c
index 23f554e..5a15c2b 100644
--- a/lib/strdup.c
+++ b/lib/strdup.c
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@
* Returns the new pointer or NULL on failure.
*
***************************************************************************/
-char *Curl_memdup(const char *src, size_t length)
+void *Curl_memdup(const void *src, size_t length)
{
- char *buffer = malloc(length);
+ void *buffer = malloc(length);
if(!buffer)
return NULL; /* fail */
diff --git a/lib/strdup.h b/lib/strdup.h
index 4c48ca4..c74a3b7 100644
--- a/lib/strdup.h
+++ b/lib/strdup.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
* | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
* \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
*
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
*
* This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
* you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -26,6 +26,6 @@
#ifndef HAVE_STRDUP
extern char *curlx_strdup(const char *str);
#endif
-char *Curl_memdup(const char *src, size_t buffer_length);
+void *Curl_memdup(const void *src, size_t buffer_length);
#endif /* HEADER_CURL_STRDUP_H */
