diff --git a/src/stdlib/SDL_string.c b/src/stdlib/SDL_string.c
index 640c30a8b..444ae6d52 100644
--- a/src/stdlib/SDL_string.c
+++ b/src/stdlib/SDL_string.c
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ SDL_strdup(const char *string)
     size_t len = SDL_strlen(string) + 1;
     char *newstr = SDL_malloc(len);
     if (newstr) {
-        SDL_strlcpy(newstr, string, len);
+        SDL_memcpy(newstr, string, len);
     }
     return newstr;
 }