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libbb: add a function to make a copy of a region of memory

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Introduce a library routine to package the idiom:

    p = xmalloc(b, n);
    memcpy(p, b, n);

and use it where possible.  The example in traceroute used xzalloc
but it didn't need to.

function                                             old     new   delta
xmemdup                                                -      32     +32
last_main                                            834     826      -8
make_device                                         2321    2311     -10
common_traceroute_main                              3698    3685     -13
readtoken1                                          3182    3168     -14
procps_scan                                         1222    1206     -16
forkchild                                            655     638     -17
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(add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/6 up/down: 32/-78)            Total: -46 bytes

Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy@frippery.org>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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Ron Yorston
2015-07-19 23:05:20 +02:00
committed by Denys Vlasenko
parent 78cfa00154
commit d840c5d139
8 changed files with 13 additions and 17 deletions
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@ -673,6 +673,7 @@ uint16_t inet_cksum(uint16_t *addr, int len) FAST_FUNC;
char *xstrdup(const char *s) FAST_FUNC RETURNS_MALLOC;
char *xstrndup(const char *s, int n) FAST_FUNC RETURNS_MALLOC;
void *xmemdup(const void *s, int n) FAST_FUNC RETURNS_MALLOC;
void overlapping_strcpy(char *dst, const char *src) FAST_FUNC;
char *safe_strncpy(char *dst, const char *src, size_t size) FAST_FUNC;
char *strncpy_IFNAMSIZ(char *dst, const char *src) FAST_FUNC;