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1 /* Copyright (C) 1991-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
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5 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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16 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
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 name_start = '=' | ((*(const unsigned char *) name) << 8);
52 #endif
53 for (ep = __environ; *ep != NULL; ++ep)
55 #if _STRING_ARCH_unaligned
56 uint16_t ep_start = *(uint16_t *) *ep;
57 #else
58 uint16_t ep_start = (((unsigned char *) *ep)[0]
59 | (((unsigned char *) *ep)[1] << 8));
60 #endif
61 if (name_start == ep_start)
62 return &(*ep)[2];
65 else
67 #if _STRING_ARCH_unaligned
68 name_start = *(const uint16_t *) name;
69 #else
70 name_start = (((const unsigned char *) name)[0]
71 | (((const unsigned char *) name)[1] << 8));
72 #endif
73 len -= 2;
74 name += 2;
76 for (ep = __environ; *ep != NULL; ++ep)
78 #if _STRING_ARCH_unaligned
79 uint16_t ep_start = *(uint16_t *) *ep;
80 #else
81 uint16_t ep_start = (((unsigned char *) *ep)[0]
82 | (((unsigned char *) *ep)[1] << 8));
83 #endif
85 if (name_start == ep_start && !strncmp (*ep + 2, name, len)
86 && (*ep)[len + 2] == '=')
87 return &(*ep)[len + 3];
91 return NULL;
93 libc_hidden_def (getenv)