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2 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
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18 #include <endian.h>
19 #include <errno.h>
20 #include <stdint.h>
21 #include <stdlib.h>
22 #include <string.h>
23 #include <unistd.h>
26 /* Return the value of the environment variable NAME. This implementation
27 is tuned a bit in that it assumes no environment variable has an empty
28 name which of course should always be true. We have a special case for
29 one character names so that for the general case we can assume at least
30 two characters which we can access. By doing this we can avoid using the
31 `strncmp' most of the time. */
32 char *
33 getenv (name)
34 const char *name;
36 size_t len = strlen (name);
37 char **ep;
38 uint16_t name_start;
40 if (__environ == NULL || name[0] == '\0')
41 return NULL;
43 if (name[1] == '\0')
45 /* The name of the variable consists of only one character. Therefore
46 the first two characters of the environment entry are this character
47 and a '=' character. */
48 #if __BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN || !_STRING_ARCH_unaligned
49 name_start = ('=' << 8) | *(const unsigned char *) name;
50 #else
51 # if __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN
52 name_start = '=' | ((*(const unsigned char *) name) << 8);
53 # else
54 #error "Funny byte order."
55 # endif
56 #endif
57 for (ep = __environ; *ep != NULL; ++ep)
59 #if _STRING_ARCH_unaligned
60 uint16_t ep_start = *(uint16_t *) *ep;
61 #else
62 uint16_t ep_start = (((unsigned char *) *ep)[0]
63 | (((unsigned char *) *ep)[1] << 8));
64 #endif
65 if (name_start == ep_start)
66 return &(*ep)[2];
69 else
71 #if _STRING_ARCH_unaligned
72 name_start = *(const uint16_t *) name;
73 #else
74 name_start = (((const unsigned char *) name)[0]
75 | (((const unsigned char *) name)[1] << 8));
76 #endif
77 len -= 2;
78 name += 2;
80 for (ep = __environ; *ep != NULL; ++ep)
82 #if _STRING_ARCH_unaligned
83 uint16_t ep_start = *(uint16_t *) *ep;
84 #else
85 uint16_t ep_start = (((unsigned char *) *ep)[0]
86 | (((unsigned char *) *ep)[1] << 8));
87 #endif
89 if (name_start == ep_start && !strncmp (*ep + 2, name, len)
90 && (*ep)[len + 2] == '=')
91 return &(*ep)[len + 3];
95 return NULL;
97 libc_hidden_def (getenv)