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1 /* Implement the strndup function.
2 Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Written by Kaveh R. Ghazi <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>.
5 This file is part of the libiberty library.
6 Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
8 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
9 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
11 Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
14 Library General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
17 License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
18 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor,
19 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
23 @deftypefn Extension char* strndup (const char *@var{s}, size_t @var{n})
25 Returns a pointer to a copy of @var{s} with at most @var{n} characters
26 in memory obtained from @code{malloc}, or @code{NULL} if insufficient
27 memory was available. The result is always NUL terminated.
29 @end deftypefn
33 #include "ansidecl.h"
34 #include <stddef.h>
36 extern size_t strlen (const char*);
37 extern PTR malloc (size_t);
38 extern PTR memcpy (PTR, const PTR, size_t);
40 char *
41 strndup (const char *s, size_t n)
43 char *result;
44 size_t len = strlen (s);
46 if (n < len)
47 len = n;
49 result = (char *) malloc (len + 1);
50 if (!result)
51 return 0;
53 result[len] = '\0';
54 return (char *) memcpy (result, s, len);